Portal:Plants/Did you know

...that the Australian Myrtaceae Kunzea ambigua (White Kunzea, pictured) is used in windbreaks and dune stabilization as well as natural landscaping gardens?
...that the four volumes of Henry Frederick Conrad Sander's magnum opus were dedicated to the respective queens or empresses of England, the Germany and Prussia, the Russia, and the Belgians?
...that mosses of the genus Polytrichum (haircap moss) have adapted to trap moist air between rows of lamellae?
...that 19th-century orchid-lover John Day painted over 3,000 illustrations of these flowers?
...that the range of the Californian threatened Ferocactus viridescens (San Diego barrel cactus) is mostly located within San Diego County?
... that Douglas Barton Osborne Savile showed that the coevolution of rust fungi and their host plants could be used as an aid to plant taxonomy and vice-versa?