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This might sound silly, but if you're looking for more of a course on the fundamentals rather than a dictionary of the specifics, the Botany Coloring Book is actually a great, seriously useful work. …

This looks like some species of Phytolacca to me. It's possibly Phytolacca americana, which is native to the US (in fact it's an enthusiastic 'volunteer' in my garden) but naturalized in Europe. If …

To summarize terdon's excellent answer: curcumin is a chemical found in the plant turmeric (Curcuma longa)

It looks like this could be Lotebush, Ziziphus obtusifolia. The thorny branchlets and blue-green color (at least, as it appears in the photos) suggest Ziziphus to me, although you could compare it wit …

That looks like a bit like a Smilax to me, possibly Smilax herbacea. Make sure you have a positive ID on any wild plant before you eat it, but if this is Smilax it looks like you don't have to worry …

As @fileunderwater suggested, this looks like an Acacia. Like many others with OSX, I have this incuded picture of an acacia as one of my screensaver rotations. It looks very similar in bauplan to th …

This article has a clear explanation (backed up by good links) of the effects of climate change on maple sap production, including the following: Maple trees produce the best sap on cool days precede …

Goldman surmises that Schoon's Hard Shell is a variant of the Bender, so would have been bred from the Surprise, Irondequoit, and Tip Top, all of which were from the Sill's Hybrid. In that sense, I su …

Some functions of non-green flower colors: #1: plant-animal interaction. Flower colors act as signals received by animals with eyes (e.g., pollinators, which many plants need to attract in order to r …

For qualitative features, you could try essentially any flora. Most of these will have descriptions like this one in Flora of China Acer .... Leaves mostly simple and palmately lobed or at le …

There are many different kinds of plants that have independently evolved this sort of variegation (non-green areas) in the leaves. However, the mechanisms by which they effect this vary between specie …

I don't know of video course, but here are two book recommendations: First, Botany in a Day by Elpel is superb in terms of being an approachable, systematic look at plant identification and basic botanical … Second, as I mentioned in this answer, the Botany Coloring Book is a great resource for basic self-education on botany / plant anatomy. …

Here's a partial answer, based more on common-sense then in-depth knowledge: Physiological. One reason light is not required immediately is that many seeds are in essence bundles of stored energy (as …

The wikipedia page Alternation of Generations actually has a pretty sophisticated discussion of this issue, and discusses the fact that plants can and do fall at a lot of different places on a gradien …

At the beginning of the 20th century, Raunkiær proposed a typology of plant life-forms based on where they bear their buds, roughly as: cryptophytes: belowground hemicryptophytes: at the surface ch …