She was thinking of how sad life was for the silversword and, then, of course how ridiculous that notion was. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
On the highest peaks, cold and dry conditions create alpine deserts inhabited by silversword (Agryroxiphium sandwicense), Dubautia spp., and other alpine-adapted plants, as well as alpine-adapted invertebrate species. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii tropical high shrublands] Reference
And the Haleakala silversword, a bizarre long-leafed plant that blooms with hundreds of magenta flowers once every 50 years, is on the ropes: an ant that sneaked in from Argentina kills the native yellow-faced bees that pollinate the silversword. From Wordnik.com. [Aliens Invade America!] Reference
Turns out, silversword is a plant that has been threatened since. From Wordnik.com. [rachelleb.com] Reference
There used to be so many silversword that people would just pull them up and roll them down the mountain. From Wordnik.com. [rachelleb.com] Reference
Other organisms, like Hawaiian silversword plants or Galapagos finches, come up frequently because they're fantastic examples of evolution happening out in the "real world". From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Under this assumption these plants would have developed the giant habit from herbaceous ancestors independently, in much the same way as has been suggested for the giant senecios of Africa and the silversword alliance of Hawaii. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
Other organisms, like Hawaiian silversword plants or Galapagos finches, come up frequently because they’re fantastic examples of evolution happening out in the “real world”. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: Mike Dunford Archives] Reference
November 24th, 2006 at 8:04 pm silversword says. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Dobson: I Want To Cure Ted Haggard of Being Gay But Don’t Have Time, It ‘Could Take Four or Five Years’] Reference
Posted by: silversword. From Wordnik.com. [Horses Mouth March 28, 2007 01:53 PM] Reference
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