subjective-sky: May Apple with leaf in the middle and buds on the verge

Saturday, April 25, 2009

May Apple with leaf in the middle and buds on the verge

As it is still April, the May Apples in Frick Park are budding, but not yet in bloom. They always seem to wait. The interesting discovery was a patch of May Apple plants with what looks like a small leaf growing out of the middle of the top of the big leaf. There was a patch of five or so like this, but just this one patch, despite the park blanketed with May Apples everywhere.

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Energy/Environment Savings Tips

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Only use as bright a bulb as you need, replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs, or better yet, with LED bulbs. Note there is a small amount of mercury in the CF bulbs, so look for proper disposal. However, there is also mercury released from coal plants, so reducing your electric use reduces mercury.
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