Take a look at this photo:
This is a two part quiz: on what plant would you find these hairs, and what are these hairs called?
Answers on Monday!
Friday morphology quiz
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Linda Chalker-Scott
Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott has a Ph.D. in Horticulture from Oregon State University and is an ISA certified arborist and an ASCA consulting arborist. She is WSU’s Extension Urban Horticulturist and a Professor in the Department of Horticulture, and holds two affiliate associate professor positions at University of Washington. She conducts research in applied plant and soil sciences, publishing the results in scientific articles and university Extension fact sheets. Linda also is the award-winning author of five books: the horticultural myth-busting The Informed Gardener (2008) and The Informed Gardener Blooms Again (2010) from the University of Washington Press and Sustainable Landscapes and Gardens: Good Science – Practical Application (2009) from GFG Publishing, Inc., and How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do from Timber Press (2015). Her latest effort is an update of Art Kruckeberg’s Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest from UW Press (2019). In 2018 Linda was featured in a video series – The Science of Gardening – produced by The Great Courses. She also is one of the Garden Professors – a group of academic colleagues who educate and entertain through their blog and Facebook pages. Linda’s contribution to gardeners was recognized in 2017 by the Association for Garden Communicators as the first recipient of their Cynthia Westcott Scientific Writing Award. "The Garden Professors" Facebook page - www.facebook.com/TheGardenProfessors "The Garden Professors" Facebook group - www.facebook.com/groups/GardenProfessors Books: http://www.sustainablelandscapesandgardens.com View all posts by Linda Chalker-Scott
The hairs are called trichomes. Will have to think about the plant they are from though.
Maybe the hairs on a prickyly pear paddle.
Venus fly trap plant?
I have seen those hairs on the ends of my Easter cactus leaves. Not sure what they are for but I do know they are epiphyte and live in trees so maybe they are for collecting moisture?
May be splitting hairs here, but Epiphyte are plants that grow on other plants. The hairs pictured appear to be part of the plant, not individual plants themselves, so they wouldn’t be called Epiphyte(s?).
Matthew- my sentence was poorly worded. I meant the plant in the picture is an epiphyte.