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Re: OK - I'll bite...
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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
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> 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
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> On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Don Burns wrote:
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> > Since no one else has asked, this non-botanical mind needs to know what
> > means it: achlorophyllous
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> > Don
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> > Don Burns Plantation, FL USA Zone 10b
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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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