what species of flower is a desert plant with tiny pink flowers in clusters and thick jagged leaves?
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Are you talking about a Christmas Cactus?  That's what it almost sounds like.\n\nHere's a link to some photos of them if you want to check and see.\n\nhttp://images.google.com/images?q=christmas+cactus&hl=en
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NeoArt was close to being correct. Numbers *do* vary. Monocots have flowers in 3s (but the sepals can look like petals in some of them so they appear to have 6 petals. Dicots generally have 5s but there are quite a few with only 4 (mustard family for one). There are a scattering of other families with irregular numbers, but they are small and uncommon families. However, for playing "she loves me ... she loves me not" the usual plant group to use are the daisies. Daisy "flowers" are really collections of small flowers (called 'florets' -- individual flowers are quite easy to see ... check out a sunflower when you see one next) and many daisy groups have what are called "ligulate florets" that have what looks like one big petal that sticks out the side of the flower head. It is these "ligules" that you pull out in "she loves me ... she loves me not". The number is not regular and will vary from species to species ... that is what gives the game the element of uncertainty.
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There is a caterpillar, newly discovered species, in Hawaii that belongs to the hyposmocoma group. It eats snails not leaves unlike most caterpillars.
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You need to give a better description about the plant in general but... it sounds like you have Amelanchier Lamarkii (a popular ornamental).
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Deserts cover about one fifth of the Earth’s surface and occur where rainfall is less than 50 cm/year. Although most deserts, such as the Sahara of North Africa and the deserts of the southwestern U.S., Mexico, and Australia, occur at low latitudes, another kind of desert, cold deserts, occur in the basin and range area of Utah and Nevada and in parts of western Asia. Most deserts have a considerable amount of specialized vegetation, as well as specialized vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Soils often have abundant nutrients because they need only water to become very productive and have little or no organic matter. Disturbances are common in the form of occasional fires or cold weather, and sudden, infrequent, but intense rains that cause flooding.\n\nThere are relatively few large mammals in deserts because most are not capable of storing sufficient water and withstanding the heat. Deserts often provide little shelter from the sun for large animals. The dominant animals of warm deserts are nonmammalian vertebrates, such as reptiles. Mammals are usually small, like the kangaroo mice of North American deserts.\n\nDesert biomes can be classified according to several characteristics.\nThere are four major types of deserts:\n\n\nHot and Dry\nSemiarid\nCoastal\nCold \n\nHot and Dry Desert\nThe four major North American deserts of this type are the Chihuahuan, Sonoran, Mojave and Great Basin. Others outside the U.S. include the Southern Asian realm, Neotropical (South and Central America), Ethiopian (Africa) and Australian.\nThe seasons are generally warm throughout the year and very hot in the summer. The winters usually bring little rainfall. Temperatures exhibit daily extremes because the atmosphere contains little humidity to block the Sun’s rays. Desert surfaces receive a little more than twice the solar radiation received by humid regions and lose almost twice as much heat at night. Many mean annual temperatures range from 20-25° C. The extreme maximum ranges from 43.5-49° C. Minimum temperatures sometimes drop to -18° C.\n\nRainfall is usually very low and/or concentrated in short bursts between long rainless periods. Evaporation rates regularly exceed rainfall rates. Sometimes rain starts falling and evaporates before reaching the ground. Rainfall is lowest on the Atacama Desert of Chile, where it averages less than 1.5 cm. Some years are even rainless. Inland Sahara also receives less than 1.5 cm a year. Rainfall in American deserts is higher—almost 28 cm a year.\n\nSoils are course-textured, shallow, rocky or gravely with good drainage and have no subsurface water. They are coarse because there is less chemical weathering. The finer dust and sand particles are blown elsewhere, leaving heavier pieces behind.\n\nCanopy in most deserts is very rare. Plants are mainly ground-hugging shrubs and short woody trees. Leaves are “replete” (fully supported with nutrients) with water-conserving characteristics. They tend to be small, thick and covered with a thick cuticle (outer layer). In the cacti, the leaves are much-reduced (to spines) and photosynthetic activity is restricted to the stems. Some plants open their stomata (microscopic openings in the epidermis of leaves that allow for gas exchange) only at night when evaporation rates are lowest. These plants include: yuccas, ocotillo, turpentine bush, prickly pears, false mesquite, sotol, ephedras, agaves and brittlebush.\n\nThe animals include small nocturnal (active at night) carnivores. The dominant animals are burrowers and kangaroo rats. There are also insects, arachnids, reptiles and birds. The animals stay inactive in protected hideaways during the hot day and come out to forage at dusk, dawn or at night, when the desert is cooler.\n\n\nSemiarid Desert\nThe major deserts of this type include the sagebrush of Utah, Montana and Great Basin. They also include the Nearctic realm (North America, Newfoundland, Greenland, Russia, Europe and northern Asia).\nThe su
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Lady's Finger-Polygonum persicaria\nCotton-Gossypium spp\nChina Rose-Hibiscus rosa-sinensis \nJute-Tiliaceae, genus Corchorus.\nBanana-genus Musa\nRice-Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima\nLemon-Citrus × limon\nCoconut-Cocos nucifera\nCoffee-Coffea arabica \nPeepal?-not found\nOnion-Allium cepa\nRadish-Brassicaceae family\nCobra-family Elapidae\nPeacock-Hogenera Pavo and Afropavo of the pheasant family, Phasianidae. \nHouse Fly-Musca domestica\nHoney Bee-Apis mellifera \nCat-Felis silvestris catus\nDog-C. lupus
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This is an odd assemblage of plants ...\n\nAfrican Witch Weed is nasty - botanical name Striga (2 weed species, actually) - that causes massive losses of grain production. The link takes you to a rather long document but the important facts are there.\n\nTraveller's palm - botanical name Ravenala - is just like another answer described it. Banana-like leaves branchinng in one plane. It is related to the Bird of Paradise flower.
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It's a plant, the name refers to the flowers that look like the beak of the kaka, a local parrot.
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That huge flower that only grows in the Amazon that has the fragrance of rotting meat to attract insects to eat them. I don't know what its name is, but it is reddish-purple and can be up to 5 feet across.
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Flourescent pink or fuschia.
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There isn't a "species", because Aloe vera is itself the species you are asking about. However, I have seen some varieties of it with hardly any spikes along the leaf edges. In part, I think this may happen when it is growing rapidly in length. I don't know specifically how to encourage this kind of leaves, but looking for an individual with this type of leaves might work for you? Also, look for a representative with FAT leaves, and they won't seem as spiky.
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Bee, fly AND moth flowers offer a nectar reward to the insect while wind pollinated flowers have very little or no nectar.  Grasses are wind pollinated and have no nectar.  Moth pollinated flowers are very long because moths have long probiscuses.  The flower has to be long so the moth gets close enough to get pollen on it's body.  Bee and fly flowers are shorter because the insect enters the flower completely to get nectar.
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they are *extremely* different kinds of plants, so the only similarities would be that their flowers have petals, stamens and ovaries
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Mountain Ranges, Desert plains and Grasslands
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In geography, a desert is a landscape form or region that receives little precipitation. As a consequence, deserts have a reputation for supporting very little life. Compared to wetter regions this may be true, although upon closer examination, deserts often harbor a wealth of life that usually remains hidden (especially during the daylight) to preserve moisture. Approximately one-third of Earth's land surface is desert.\n\nThe world's great deserts were formed by natural processes interacting over long intervals of time. During most of these times, deserts have grown and shrunk independent of human activities. Paleodeserts, large sand seas now inactive because they are stabilized by vegetation, extend well beyond the present margins of core deserts, such as the Sahara. In some regions, deserts are separated sharply from surrounding, less arid areas by mountains and other contrasting landforms that reflect basic structural differences in the regional geology. In other areas, desert fringes form a gradual transition from a dry to a more humid environment, making it more difficult to define the desert border.\n\nThese transition zones have very fragile, delicately balanced ecosystems. Desert fringes often are a mosaic of microclimates. Small hollows support vegetation that picks up heat from the hot winds and protects the land from the prevailing winds. After rainfall the vegetated areas are distinctly cooler than the surroundings. In these marginal areas, human activity may stress the ecosystem beyond its tolerance limit, resulting in degradation of the land. By pounding the soil with their hooves, livestock compact the substrate, increase the proportion of fine material, and reduce the percolation rate of the soil, thus encouraging erosion by wind and water. Grazing and the collection of firewood reduces or eliminates plants that help to bind the soil.\nRio Puerco Basin of central New Mexico\n\nOvergrazing has made the Rio Puerco Basin of central New Mexico one of the most eroded river basins of the American West and has increased the high sediment content of the river (photograph by Terrence Moore).\n\nThis degradation of formerly productive land-- desertification--is a complex process. It involves multiple causes, and it proceeds at varying rates in different climates. Desertification may intensify a general climatic trend toward greater aridity, or it may initiate a change in local climate.\n\nDesertification does not occur in linear, easily mappable patterns. Deserts advance erratically, forming patches on their borders. Areas far from natural deserts can degrade quickly to barren soil, rock, or sand through poor land management. The presence of a nearby desert has no direct relationship to desertification. Unfortunately, an area undergoing desertification is brought to public attention only after the process is well underway. Often little or no data are available to indicate the previous state of the ecosystem or the rate of degradation. Scientists still question whether desertification, as a process of global change, is permanent or how and when it can be halted or reversed
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i always thought they were called "T-4 Plants" they live in the desert. They conserve ware by keeping their stomata closed because in normal plants stomata leaks out water
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Floral biology and breeding behavior were studied in the bamboo Dendrocalamus strictus Nees. The inflorescence in this species is a large branching panicle. Fertile florets are intermixed with smaller sterile ones. There are six stamens. The ovary is stipitate and turbinate. The style is long and the stigma is bifid and plumose. Dendrocalamus strictus is typically dichogamous and protogynous. The gynoecium matures 3-4 days before the androecium, effectively preventing self pollination. Flower bloom, which took place over a period of 2 to 3 h, was dependent on air temperature and only occurred between 0600 and 1300 h. Dendrocalamus strictus is anemophilous. Flowers in the male phase were visited by insects. These insects completely neglected the flowers at the female phase. The insects fed on the pollen and were not pollen vectors. When wind was excluded by enclosing the inflorescences in bags there was no seed set, indicating that cross pollination by wind is necessary for fertilization and that parthenocarpy and apomixis are not occurring in this species. Pollen fertility was about 98% as indicated by staining fresh pollen at the time of anther dehiscence and pollen release with Alexander's stain (Alexander 1969). When placed on a modified Brewbaker-Kwak medium containing 1% glucose, the pollen grains germinated well, and the pollen tubes grew to 15-20 times the diameter of mature pollen grains. Although profound protogyny has its disadvantages in times of sporadic flowering, it can be useful in breeding programs because it eliminates the need for emasculation.