Re: OK - I'll bite...

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.

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