Plants

Team 3 Fireweed
The fireweed's real name is epilobium angustifolium. It can produce up to 80,000 seeds in a whole entire year. The seed hairs the fireweed has responds to the humidity. It can grow to be up to 5 feet tall. Fireweed is also used for medical uses. It's roots are used for medicine people use for the whooping cough, asthma, and even hiccups. They even make honey out of it. They grow when the forest has been freshly burned. It leaves can be cooked and eaten. People make ice cream and lots of other tasty thing out of fireweed in Alaska. Fireweed grows best in full sun, but it can handle some shade. http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_fireweed.htm http://depts.washington.edu/propplnt/Plants/epilobium.htm http://m.eb.com/topic/207979 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilobium_angustifolium

Team 4 Venus Fly Trap
The Venus fly trap is carnivours it eats insect. Its real name is. It takes five to eight years so it can actually become normal size. It also has a bunch of sweet nectar so the insects can Be attracted to it. The insect it mostly eats is flies,caterpillars ,and spiders. It's colors are also attractive to the insects so the plant can eat. So it can trigger the fly trap it has hairs in the inside of its mouth. The Venus fly trap is actually an herb. It needs everything a normal herb needs. The Venus fly trap has the ability to digest flies. what it does is first it tries to make the fly land in its mouth by producing this surgery liqued. Second the fly smells the liqued and flies to the scent. Third the fly starts to eat the liqued and triggers the special needles that are in the Venus fly traps mouth. Fourth once the fly triggers the special glance the Venus fly trap closes it's mouth really quick. Fith the fly tries to escape but the Venus fly trap tightens it's mouth even more and starts to digest after 12 hours it will open its mouth again and then try to catch another fly. http://www.vincelewis.net/venustrap.html

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Team 5 Coffee Plant
The coffee plant is one of the biggest plant families, it contains over 6000 species. This plant can usally be found in the tropical areas all around the world. Sence this plant has so many species not all of them look the same in there futures most of them are very different but that should be normal. This is a finachaly important family of plant because it includes the very much loved coffee plant. There arsolos very many types of plants like this one I the plant family like the gardenias, with their beautiful and great smelling flowers. The main coffee plant that produces coffee beans is called the coffee arabica. Coffee plants usally grow under a tall shady tree, but in conditions they can grow in the sun if a tree gets removedfrom there.



http://rainforest-australia.com/Coffee.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee?utm_source=Couple+Money+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0eb8239381-CM+Daily+Newsletter&utm_medium=email http://www.livingrainforest.org/about-rainforests/rainforest-berries-coffee/

===Team 6 Passion flower A.K.A Passiflora=== Passion flower can be used as a stress reducer and stops nervousness. Passiflora is a large flower with unique structure that requires a large insect to pollinate covered in hairs and sticky fluids. The flower produces nubs into fooling the butterfly into thinking that they all ready laid eggs. Nubs are a knob or lump. Passion flowers grow in Spain and Florida they grow the best in temperate climate. Nubs are little eggs that the flower produces so the butterfly doesn't lay a bunch of eggs because the flower can't carry a lot of eggs of it will die. It helps the enviorment by reducing the butterfly popullation and alot of other animals use it too. Humans use it for medicine too. The passionflower also help the ecosystem by Providing food insect and a habitat wasps,spiders, assassin bugs. The passion flower helps the butterflies larvae ( caterpillar ) by it poisonous leaves that are eaten by the caterpillar and then he becomes poisonous to predators.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora http://www.austinbug.com/larvalbugbio/passionflowers.html http://www.saverfn.org/lessonssymb.html

Team 7 The Tacca Chanteiri
We chose the (BBF) Black Bat Flower aka Tacca Chantieri. The first BBF was found in 2009 in South East Asia. Our plant help fight cancer patients and the type of cancer is taccalonolides. It drops seeds to help all the plant life around it by making the soil richer. People say that it has to be in the humid area with 57-60F it will die in 78-82F Dry. Crows and other birds eat the BBF seeds for protein and for energy. They are a flower that can help people and plants. It grows 6-12 feet long. Bloom Color:Green Dark Purple/Black. It was found in 1997 in south eastern Asia.

http://davesfiles.com/Plants/Tacca/Tacca_Chantrieri_Black_Bat_Plant.htm http://www.paraplants.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-ask.tpl&product_id=647&Itemid=1&vmcchk=1&Itemid=1http://www.beautiful-tropical-gardens.com/bat-plant.html http://www.rareflora.com/taccachablack.htm

Team 8 Rafflesia Arnoldii
The Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest plant in the world. This plant it is a carnavor that is rare and endangered. It lives in Indoesia. The Rafflesia is a parasite that does not have any leaves, stems, or roots. This plant uses a sweet smell and a sweaty smell that it has to attract insects and other meats, but they mostly get ants and flies. The flower has to get beetles and flies to get under a disc and get the pollen and take it to a different Rafflesia. After the pollen is taken the plant dies in about a week. The reason this plant is so important to its biom because it is rare and endangered. The Rafflesia Arnoldii was discovered by a man by the name of Dr. Joseph Arnold in 1818. He foundpit on his expedition to the islands of Sumatra in the country of Indonesia. The Rafflesia Arnoldii weighs up to 10 kilograms. 10 kilograms is equal to 22 pounds.

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