OK - I'll bite...

From: Don Burns <burns at mobot.org> on 1997.04.30 at 13:57:25(681) Since no one else has asked, this non-botanical mind needs to know what means it: achlorophyllous Don +More Don Burns Plantation, FL USA Zone 10b

From: "Richard Mansell (BIO)" <mansell at chuma.cas.usf.edu> on 1997.04.30 at 14:10:50(682) Simply - without chlorophyll Obviously this cannot be true otherwise this plant would have to be a heterotroph. That would make it doubly interesting! Dick +More On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Don Burns wrote: > Since no one else has asked, this non-botanical mind needs to know what > means it: achlorophyllous > > Don > > > Don Burns Plantation, FL USA Zone 10b > > -- Richard L. Mansell Phone: H(813) 961-7072 Biology Department, LIF 136 W(813) 974-1588 University of South Florida Fax: (813) 974-1614 Tampa, FL 33620 Home: 13508 Little Lake Place, Tampa, FL 33613-4134 E-mail- mansell@chuma.cas.usf.edu WWW - http://www.cas.usf.edu/~mansell/mansell.html

From: plantnut at shadow.net (Dewey Fisk) on 1997.04.30 at 16:26:57(683) Don, "Plant Identification Terminology, An Illustrated Glossary"... Harris & Harris.... says: "Without chlorophyll, as in plants or plant structures which are not green." Dewey +More >Since no one else has asked, this non-botanical mind needs to know what >means it: achlorophyllous > >Don > > >Don Burns Plantation, FL USA Zone 10b Dewey E. Fisk, Plant Nut THE PHILODENDRON PHREAQUE

From: "Ashley Howarcl[ny][none]" <ashley at ingress.com> on 1997.04.30 at 16:31:17(684) On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Don Burns wrote: > Since no one else has asked, this non-botanical mind needs to know what > means it: achlorophyllous > I have never come across the word til now, but it would apparently mean "without chlorophyll" chlorophyll being that plant agent responsible for turning sunlight into energy for plant food production. That said, wouldn't this property of achlorophyllity be true of nearly all other flowers in the plant kingdom??? Perhaps another word was meant. One meaning lack of color or pigment. Or the writer is saying that the flower not having any energy producing chlorophyll in its structure will require energy from its parent plant. H.

From: "Jane M. Whitehill" <whitehil at mobot.org> on 1997.04.30 at 16:34:41(685) no chlorophyl - not green - therefore, it isn't photosynthesizing and (as it were) pulling its weight in the plant economy...though it could be said that a flower has other fish to fry +More On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Don Burns wrote: > Since no one else has asked, this non-botanical mind needs to know what > means it: achlorophyllous > > Don > > > Don Burns Plantation, FL USA Zone 10b >

From: plantnut at shadow.net (Dewey Fisk) on 1997.04.30 at 19:34:48(688) Ladies and Gentlemen...... In defense of Dr. Croat, the user of the word in question.... I think if you will reread his message.. you will find that he said "mostly" achlorophyllous.. Like any good politician, he has left a loophole for himself. Dewey +More Dewey E. Fisk, Plant Nut THE PHILODENDRON PHREAQUE

From: Tom Croat <croat at mobot.org> on 1997.04.30 at 19:38:50(689) Don: It means lacking chlorophyll, ie its not green and can't photosynthesize or produce energy for the plant. Tom +More > > no chlorophyl - not green - therefore, it isn't photosynthesizing and (as it > were) pulling its weight in the plant economy...though it could be said that a > flower has other fish to fry > > On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Don Burns wrote: > > > Since no one else has asked, this non-botanical mind needs to know what > > means it: achlorophyllous > > > > Don > > > > > > Don Burns Plantation, FL USA Zone 10b > > > > > > -- Thomas B. Croat, Ph.D. P.A. Schulz Curator of Botany Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 phone: 314-577-5163; fax 314-577-9596; email croat@mobot.org

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