61.   Hybrid varieties have been crossbred from different parents, so their seed can vary genetically, and plants from that seed may not resemble the parent.

62.   I have some miniature rose plants from my local supermarket, which I grabbed with the potatoes one dreary winter day.

63.   In a photograph of an agave plant from this period, for example, a delicately sinuous shoot emerges from the hoodlike frond that protects it.

64.   In addition to concerns of animal husbandry, environmentalists question the wisdom of collecting exotic plants from around the world.

65.   In one study, University of Houston researchers are testing medicinal plants from the rain forest for their curative effects.

66.   In one experiment, he will attempt to grow crops of mustard plants from seeds that are produced in space.

67.   Inedible and inhospitable to most wildlife, this purple reign banished native animals and plants from their homelands.

68.   Intel will shift production at an Israeli plant from memory to logic chips, which are in higher demand.

69.   It can survive on Long Island and in spots in and around New York City, wherever a sheltered microenvironment keeps plants from getting too cold for too long.

70.   It also afflicts other plants from almond trees to Oleander bushes planted along freeway median strips.