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Category Archives: Water Plants
Visitors from Talfourd Avenue go Tropical
On Saturday the 15th of March the Tropical Biodiversity Glasshouse project had the pleasure of hosting families from the Talfourd Avenue group. They kindly agreed to come test our new (and hopefully improved) glasshouse tour, which was designed and created … Continue reading
Posted in Countries, Fish, Hands-on, Interactive, Labelling, Learning and Teaching, Pond, Technology, Water Plants
Tagged banana, carnivorous plant, community education, Kinaesthetic learning, local visits, teaching and learning, Tropical biodiversity, Tropical Crops, Tropical food plants, water hyacinth, zingiberaceae
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Zebra Danio (Danio rerio) GCSE Learning Resource
Welcome to the first on-line learning resource based in the tropical biodiversity glasshouse at the University of Reading. This learning resource is based on the GCSE level curriculum for biology and is designed to be used as an entire one … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Fish, Learning and Teaching, Pond, Secondary Schools, Water Plants
Tagged aquatic environments, aquatic plants, banana, biology, biology facts, biology handouts, Biology practical, biology project, Biology revision, blood worms, climate change, computer based teaching aid, cool, Danio rerio, Danios, distance learning, diversity, ecology, education, engaging, feeding behavior, feeding fish, fish, fish tank, free, fun, future learning, GCSE Biology, GCSE revision, Glass house, global, HD, High Definition, Indian wildlife, land plants, lesson plan, mosquito larvae, new, online learning, online learning resource, pond life, ponds, Reading Biodiversity, resources for teachers, school of life sciences, science, secondary school, species interaction, teaching aid, The University of reading, third year project, Tropical biodiversity, tropical plants, UK, under water video, video footage, water lily, wildlife, worksheets, YouTube, Zebra danio, Zebrafish, zoology
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Community Open Event May 2013
On Monday 20th May we held what might be considered the official opening of the Tropical Biodiversity Glasshouse. The University of Reading community open event provided a means for both the Harris Garden and our greenhouse to be shown to … Continue reading
Posted in Annual Fund, Collaborators, Crops, Hands-on, Meeting, People, Staff, Students, Water Plants
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Eichhornia crassipes – The ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ of the freshwater world.
Eichhornia crassipes (Water Hyacinth) has a relatively ambivalent place in freshwater habitats. It has become a serious invasive species in many countries, and is one of the world’s most noxious aquatic weeds (Patel, 2012), yet it has been found to … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Americas, Asia, Neotropics, Pond, Water Plants
Tagged biofuel, Eichhornia crassipes, invasive, Pontederiaceae, Waste water treatment, water hyacinth
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Cyperus papyrus L., post 2 of 2, taxonomy and distribution
Cyperus papyrus is a tall and graceful plant. It looks stunning in the Tropical Greenhouse with a tropical blue sky behind it, which, even in October, Reading obligingly provided, to prove the point. It’s up to 5m tall, with almost globular … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Crops, Madagascar, Pond, Species, Students, Water Plants
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Cyperus papyrus L., post 1 of 2, value and uses
The one thing that most people know about this plant is that it was the source of paper for ancient Egyptians. They started to use it for writing on circa 5000 years ago, and carried on up until the 8th or … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Countries, Crops, Madagascar, Pond, Species, Water Plants
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Water Lettuce
A member of the Araceae, Water Lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) is a problem floating plant of tropical waterways. The native origin and spread of the species is not known but it has been recorded in both the New and Old World … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Australia, Palaeotropics, Pond, Species, Water Plants
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