Our plant systems class met for the last time today. Went to the Osbourne Priarie, north of town on Section 16 Road. A calcerous gully, blinding white, where the topsoil has been washed away to reveal the chalky remnants of cretaceous-era coral. The gullies are littered with 65-million-year-old mussel and clam shells, old tires, rusty cans, panicum grass, blue-eyed grass, and lots and lots of cedars. In areas where the cedars are dense there are pines and even some oaks and dogwoods. I saw jack-in-the pulpet, two box turtles, and some new ones for me, setenium aromaticum, or tooth-ache tree, which has some sort of mouth-numbing properties (I did not experiment) and a golden colored flower called Hoarey Pacoon. I did not bring my camera, and had to take these with a cell phone. I did not identify any of the plants in these shots, if anyone wants to take a stab at it, be my guest. One of them I think is a 1970s era Magnavox showing the botany channel.
Our plant systems class met for the last time today. Went to the Osbourne Priarie, north of town on Section 16 Road. A calcerous gully, blinding white, where the topsoil has been washed away to reveal the chalky remnants of cretaceous-era coral. The gullies are littered with 65-million-year-old mussel and clam shells, old tires, rusty cans, panicum grass, blue-eyed grass, and lots and lots of cedars. In areas where the cedars are dense there are pines and even some oaks and dogwoods. I saw jack-in-the pulpet, two box turtles, and some new ones for me, setenium aromaticum, or tooth-ache tree, which has some sort of mouth-numbing properties (I did not experiment) and a golden colored flower called Hoarey Pacoon. I did not bring my camera, and had to take these with a cell phone. I did not identify any of the plants in these shots, if anyone wants to take a stab at it, be my guest. One of them I think is a 1970s era Magnavox showing the botany channel.
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I must gently and respectfully disagree. The magnavox is clearly tuned to the German channel. If you look closely you can just make out Knut, the German Zoo's Ecospokescub Bi-Polar Bear, just before he zaps the visiting Panda.
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