State Trees & Flowers
Food Plants
Plants around the World
Plant Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
The state tree of Louisiana.
What is cypress?
100
The largest United States crop in terms of total production.
What is corn?
100
This well known stinker, Amorphophallus titanum, is native to Indonesia, and has the largest unbranching flower in the plant kingdom.
What is the corpse flower?
100
The process a plant uses to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
100
True or False: Yams and sweet potatoes are the same species.
What is false?
200
The Louisiana state wildflower.
What is Iris?
200
The fruit so smelly that it's banned on public transportation in parts of SE Asia.
What is durian?
200
Native to Mexico, this plant is one of the most expensive spices in the world.
What is the vanilla orchid?
200
This type of plant loses its leaves every year.
What is deciduous?
200
The members of this plant family include such important economic crops like apples, pears, almonds, peaches and plums in addition to this plant which shares its name.
What is the rose?
300
The official state flower of New York.
What is the rose?
300
Vitis rotundifolia is a grapevine species native to the southeastern and south-central United States. Tell me the common name for this species.
What is muscadines?
300
This image shows the production of this tropical fruit native to Southern Mexico and Central America.
What is the dragonfruit, or pitaya?
300
A plant, alga or fungus that grows on another plant using it for support without taking nourishment from it.
What is an epiphyte?
300
The world's top flower exporter (country).
What is the Netherlands?
400
The state tree of Texas.
What is the pecan?
400
The world's largest agricultural product by volume, with production concentrated in tropical and subtropical regions.
What is sugarcane?
400
The pods seen here are the fruits of what tree, and are used in the production of a very popular candy item.
What is the cacao tree?
400
Having a natural distribution restricted to a particular geographic region; located nowhere else on the planet.
What is endemic?
400
Tequila or mexcal are made from members of this genus of plants native to the Americas.
What is agave?
500
The state flower of Louisiana.
What is the magnolia?
500
Apples do not originate in America despite the saying "As American as Apple Pie." This is the name of the country where apples actually come from.
What is Kazakhstan?
500
General Sherman is the largest living tree in the world by volume and also the largest living organism on Earth, and an exemplar of this type of tree species.
What is a sequoia tree?
500
Taxonomic rank above Genus and below Order; a grouping of species from closely related genera that share traits in common.
What is family?
500
The original or common name for this fruit was once the love apple.
What is tomato?