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Showing posts with label botanical quiz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label botanical quiz. Show all posts

New Botanical ID Quiz

It has been far too long since we had a botanical identification quiz, although having a couple of sharpies among your readers has greatly cut down on the number of guesses on previous quizes, which have averaged about 1! The solution to the problem is obvious; make the quiz a lot harder, and here is an admission, the Phactor got this one wrong in response to a student query during a field trip to a botanical garden, but my students were impressed anyways. Explanation will follow later. This quiz features the most ornamental and striking feature of this plant, the exfoliating bark, and we'll see how you do.

Botanical Quiz

Here's are two botanical items that go together in an interesting way. What do we have here? Let's see if anyone out there can identify the plants, which means they know what this is and what it is for. What do you say sports fans?