Questions tagged [plants]
For questions pertaining to plant life (trees, flowers), not industrial plants (which may fall under e.g. [economics] or [technology])
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Is the fruit of Ficus Benjamina (Weeping Fig) poisonous? [closed]
Ficus Benjamina (Weeping Fig) is a popular house plant. The leaves and sap are generally considered toxic. However, I found conflicting information about the fruit.
Some sources claim the fruit is not ...
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Is moderated livestock grazing an effective countermeasure for desertification?
In this TED talk from 2013, Allan Savory claims that livestock/cattle grazing (not industrial farming, but rather some frugal grazing of herds) help prevent and reverse desertification processes, ...
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Does the Yulan Magnolia flower bud look like a bird?
This GreaterGood article, Yulan Magnolia Flowers Look Like Beautiful Birds, shows pictures of flowers that look like birds, including these images from the planetsavioursuk Instagram account.
They ...
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Are the ingredients listed in "Macbeth" common plants?
It is easy to find dozens of sites claiming, generally without attribution, that the ingredients in the famously gruesome witches' brew from Shakespeare's play Macbeth are herbalist jargon for common ...
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Does the coffee plant use caffeine to kill bugs and surrounding plants?
The HUmans are Free article The Coffee Deception: 13 Little Known Facts About Coffee makes the claim that caffeine in the plant is used to kill bugs and surrounding plants.
1. Caffeine is an ...
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Has the Javan devil leaf nettle (urtica urentissima) been shown to cause any deaths?
According to Sir Stephen Tallents, writing in The Spectator, 12 March 1943:
The sting of a certain Java nettle, for example, may last for a year and is reputed even to cause death.
Mrs. M. Grieve, ...
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Do people become resistant to stinging nettles?
The WikiHow page How to Touch Nettles Without Stinging Yourself claims:
Although experienced nettle harvesters often go bare-handed, this isn't just because they know how to avoid stings. Many of ...
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Does watering plants with purified water yield better results?
I watched a commercial for the Aquaguard Enhance RO+UV water purifier recently.
In that commercial, a science teacher assigns an experiment to students. The students bringing a plant to school, and ...
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Does Aloe Vera help pass drug test?
The news which is flashing says that usage of Aloe Vera products like juice, gel or shampoo may avoid traces of drugs from the body. It is rumored that Aloe Vera consumption gets you negative for Drug ...
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Do some GMO plants provide bigger yields and more efficient use of land?
I was told that some Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) provide bigger crop yields and a more efficient use of land compared to unmodified crops.
Monsanto claim:
These [GMO] seeds grow into ...
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Does the "Blood of Jesus on the Cross" flower only bloom during the Holy week (just before Easter)?
It is claimed that this flower grows only in the Holy week on social media.
For example:
Facebook
This beautiful flower grows in New Zealand and is called the "Blood of Jesus on the Cross".
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To what extent do needle trees contribute to fine dust pollution?
Today I ran into an article concerning cars and their effect on the existence of particulate matter. Especially the last paragraph caught my attention where it is claimed that coniferous also ...
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Does the Kiri Tree reduce carbon dioxide emissions ten times more than the average tree?
The About section of the Kiri Tree website says:
The tree is known to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions ten times
more than the average tree and also in return produce ten times more
oxygen (...
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Will plant-life on Earth end due to too little CO2?
According to a 2013 Daily Mail article :
greater evaporation and chemical reactions with rainwater will take away more and more carbon dioxide.
In less than a billion years, its levels will be too ...
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Does Asclepias gigantea cause blindness?
It is a widespread bilief that Asclepias gigantea or the "Arka" or "Jilledu" tree is poisonous and causes blindness.
The general belief is that
If the milk of the plant falls into the eye, you go ...
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