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Relating orchids to asparagus
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/sc...053223336&ei=1
An Orchid by Any Other Name: An Asparagus? By CAROL KAESUK YOON Orchids can be elegant, gaudy, lurid and even downright bizarre. But while the unusual flowers of these species have excited plant lovers for centuries, they have also made it difficult for evolutionary biologists to place them in the plant family tree and identify their closest relatives. But now, scientists say, studies of the DNA of orchids are revealing a host of surprises, chief among them, that orchids are actually part of the asparagus group, closer kin to these vegetables than to the other, flashier, flowering plants they had been placed with before. deg |
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Relating orchids to asparagus
You beat me to the punch. I read that article. If I find the time I'll
also post the content of a recent NYTimes editorial about orchids - very thoughtful. As to today's piece, I guess we knew that orchids turned US into vegetables. Now maybe we know why........ Diana |
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