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Great photos of plants without flowers

Feb 13 ’06

Finally, I've found a great page with photos of non-flowering plants: Dr. Dennis Walker of Humboldt State University has an online gallery of plant images that focusses mostly on non-flowering plants. It has excellent coverage of ferns and conifers, but very little in the flowering plants. The most interesting part is that many of the photos of weird species such as Welwitschia have full plant photos in the native habitats. If you want to see what weird plants can look like, check the Gnetopsida gallery. Via Scott's botanical links.

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    On May 3rd Louise Brown said:

    How do plants without flowers proliferate?

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    On June 18th Brent Miller said:

    It varies, but most plants engage in some kind of sexual reproduction. Pine trees and other conifers produce pollen and eggs in cones instead of flowers. Ferns produce spore under some of their leaves. Mosses also produce spores, in the stalked structures called sporophytes. The "birds and the bees" also applies to plants...

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