Just Images: Bizarre Botanicals by BaileyBW

Champion(s):

BoulierJ
Able was I, ere I saw Elba.


Runner(s)-Up:

LaudermithM


Quiz Description

This quiz covers a few of the stranger members of the Plant Kingdom. Unless otherwise specified, give the most common English language name (not the scientific name) for all answers asking for a plant's name. Click on any of the photos to enlarge them.

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Questions:

This is an example of one of over 9,000 species of Marchantiophyta, a few of which are some of the only plants native to Antarctica. I do not think they ferment well.k

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Liverworts

This is the the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), which has one of the largest flowers in the world. It is also one of the smelliest. What tropical island does it call home, a place it shares with Medan, Palembang and Banda Aceh? h

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Sumatra

This is Pando, perhaps the largest of its kind (Populus tremuloides). Or of any kind. If it fell down in a forest, I imagine you wouldn't need a seismometer to know it! What kind of tree is Pando? j

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Quaking Aspen

Though it looks like it would be at home in Middle-earth or Westeros, this plant, Dracaena cinnabari, is actually native to an island off the coast of Yemen. d

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Dragon blood tree

This is the fruit and seed of what tree native to Brazil? z

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Cashew

What large desert in southern Africa is the home of this living fossil, Welwitschia mirabilis? b

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Namib Desert

Any Anas platyrhynchos could tell you what this tiniest of flowering plants is. l

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Duckweed

On what island was this photograph taken? (Hint: it's not in Virginia.) g

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Norfolk Island

This oddity, Pringlea antiscorbutica, is a native of the island group shown below (where there have been few sitings of shoes, ships, or sealing wax). x x1

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Kerguelen Cabbage

From the Greek for "upon" and "plant", this tree trunk showcases many species of plants that are what?e

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Epiphytes

The buzz is that this is one of the many species found in genus Drosera. What are they more commonly known as?c

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Sundews

This is a rare cristate member of what species? i

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Saguaro cactus