Monday, December 15, 2008

Growing roots

I've often said that we're in the business of growing roots. This is what I mean:

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  1. I had no idea the tap root grew to that length. I wonder if it is a species characteristic, or the genus characteristic.
    Aiyana

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  2. The individual plants vary a lot. This is a H. splendens grown from seed collected by David Martin. H. truncats almost always has a significant tap root.

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  3. Oops! That should have been H. truncata!

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