Ninja Plants: Survival and Adaptation in the Plant World - page 13

humidity, 10
Hurley, Marina, 41
hydrostatic (fluid) pressure, 65
indigenous peoples, 42, 53, 71, 80
inflorescence,20
insects, 5–7, 11–13, 19,21 –24,
28–35, 38–40, 44–45,
47–48, 50, 52–53, 72
bees, 13,24, 30, 44–45
beetles,20 ,24,39, 72
flies,26, 31–32
plants that eat, 28–35
International Space Station, 64
invasive species, 72
jabuticaba tree, 50
jack pine, 72–73
jumping plants, 63, 68
labellum, 32
laws concerning plants, 67, 72
leaves, 10, 16–19, 29–31, 33–38,
40–42, 47–48, 53, 58–60,
62, 67–68, 74, 76
lichens, 60, 65
Linnaeus, Carolus, 8
literature, plants in, 78
lithops, 6
locomotion in plants, 62–69
male flower parts, 11–12, 14,
21–23, 52
manzanita, 70
Meatless Monday, 81
medicine plants, 53, 76, 81
Mesopotamia, 78
mesquite tree, 58
Mexican jumping bean, 68
Middle East, 15, 58, 78
migration, 9
milkweed, 14
mimicry, 44–53
minerals in soil, 9–10, 16–17,
28, 72
mistletoe,25
mitosis, 14
monoculture, 80
mosses, 65
mountains, 53–54, 60
movies, plants in, 77–78
mucilage, 34, 43
mushrooms, 49–50
music, plants in, 78
mutation, 7
mycorrhizae, 11
myths, 78
Namib Desert, 58
natural selection, 7
nectar, 13,24 , 29–31
nettles, 41, 46–47
ninjas, 5, 19,21,24, 36, 41, 44, 46,
54, 62, 65, 67, 70, 85
nitrogen, 6, 17, 28–30, 71, 80
North America,24–25, 49, 51,
59, 76
nutrients, 9–11, 16–17,23–24,
26,28–31, 37, 42–43, 49,
53, 59, 66–67, 71, 74
odor strategies, 11,20–27
On the Origin of Species
(Darwin), 7
orchids, 5, 32, 44–46, 52–53
flying duck, 32
laughing bumblebee, 5, 45
monkey face, 53
tongue, 46
pampas grass, 75
paperbark tree, 71–72
parasitic plants, 6,25, 43, 65–66
permafrost, 65
phloem tissue, 88
photosynthesis, 9–11, 16–18,
29–30, 66–67
pitcher plants, 31, 33
Plants vs. Zombies, 77
poison plants, 9, 36, 38–43, 51
pollen, 9, 11–14,21 –23, 32,
45–46, 52, 62
pollination, 5, 7, 11–13, 19, 32, 48
abiotic, 13
pollinators, 16,27,29, 44–45,
50–53
popular culture, plants in, 76–78
Pouyanne, Maurice-Alexandre,
44, 52
propagation, clonal, 64
pseudocopulation, 32, 44
Pythagoras, 78
Raffles,Thomas,21
Rafflesia,21–22
rainfall, 10, 60
rain forests, 10,26, 41, 43, 46–47,
79, 81–83
rattan, 38
redwood trees, 73
reproduction, 5, 7, 11–18, 48, 63
asexual, 14–16, 48, 64
clonal, 64
sexual, 11, 48
reproductive cells, 11–12,26, 32
respiration, 16–18,23
resurrection fern, 59–60
roses, 8
sap, 40, 42, 53, 76
scientific plant names. See
binomial nomenclature
seed dispersal, 6, 14, 18,26–27,
41–42, 65, 72–73
seeds, 6–7, 9, 12–14, 18,24–27,
37, 41, 42–43, 50–51, 62,
66–68, 70–74
sensitive plant, 67–68
serotinous plants, 73
sessile, 62
skunk cabbage, 5,24–25
slobber weed, 40
smoke, 41, 73–74
soil, 4–6, 9–11, 14, 16–17,24–25,
28–30, 49–50, 54, 59,
71–74, 80, 82
solifluction floating, 65
South America, 42, 47, 50–51, 53,
60–61, 67, 75
Southeast Asia,20–21, 36, 75
spores,26, 48–49
squirting cucumber, 43
steroids, 18
sticky plants, 11,22,25–26, 29,
32–34, 72, 74
stinky-smelling plants, 11,20–27
strangler fig, 6, 43, 65
sundews, 33–34
sunflowers, 68–69
sunlight, 9–10, 16–17, 38, 40,
58–60, 62, 68–69, 74
survival strategies, 9–11, 18–19,
37, 42, 44, 48, 52, 56,
58–60, 62, 67
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