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Article: Weird Plants.(The Home Forum)(Kid Space)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 18, 2000
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You think plants are dull? What about a giant flower that's three feet wide, has no roots, leaves, or stem, and smells horrible? Or a teeny-weeny plant that produces a figlike fruit that weighs a little more than a grain of salt? Or how about a fern in your backyard that dinosaurs used to eat? Read on....
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In ponds across North America, you'll find plants so small it takes a magnifying glass to see them. When thousands of these flattened, oval-shaped green bodies congregate, they form a coating of green film on the water surface. It may look like algae, but it's not. Scientists call it Wolffia, but it's better known as duckweed. It got its ...