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Plants Quiz. Can you answer them all?
Question 1 of 10
The tahina palm has leaves so broad, 15 feet across, that it's visible on Google Earth. But we didn't discover it until 2008. Where?
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Question 2 of 10
If you see somebody standing under Viscum album, what should you do?
Question 3 of 10
Two Indonesian flowers, rafflesia and titan arum both claim to be the world's largest flower. Confusingly, both are also known by what name?
Question 4 of 10
That wonderful smell of cut grass comes from green leaf volatiles. According to a 2012 item in Science, what causes grass to release GLVs?
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Question 5 of 10
What fungus from the Claviceps can spread through grains, creating hallucinations and madness that have been blamed for the Salem witch trials, the French peasant uprising in 1789 and Peter the Great's retreat from Astrakhan in 1722?
Question 6 of 10
Eucalyptus deglupta is the only eucalyptus that grows in the northern hemisphere, in Hawaii and Florida. It also goes by what name, for how the outer bark peels, revealing an array of colors?
Question 7 of 10
A genus of flowering plant called lobelia is known as Indian tobacco, as well as all but which of these names?
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Question 8 of 10
What agriculture technique keeps one field fallow, sowing cereals in the fall and oats and legumes in the spring?
Question 9 of 10
We wouldn't have tequila if it weren't for what animals, which pollinate almost every tropical night-blooming plant?
Question 10 of 10
The cranesbill is named for its resemblance to a crane, and it is the wild version of what flower, whose name means "crane" in Latin?
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