Our mystery seeds this week are not very distinctive.
Yes, this week’s challenge is a tough one.
So this week I’m giving you a big hint:Â Pesto would not be the same without the plant these seeds produce.
Can you guess?
Edit:Â The answer is now posted.
Our often-grown mystery seeds from last week were from a zucchini plant, Cucurbita pepo, but they could have been from any squash or pumpkin plant of that species. If you guessed those, you are also correct.
The zucchini is a low plant with fairly large leaves.
The bright orange flowers may be male or female.
They are pollinated by bees or may be pollinated by hand if there are too few bees to do the job.
And soon the ubiquitous fruit develops. I think this one is headed for zucchini bread.
What is your favorite way to eat zucchini?
Just a quick note to let you all know that I’m ramping up the social networking for my blogs just a bit, and now there are two new ways to follow Growing With Science.
First, there’s a new Facebook page called Growing With Science. You can access it through the link in the sidebar to the right, or you can simply type “Growing with Science” into you search bar when you are in Facebook. The idea is that I will share quick links to science-related items that may not merit a post and keep you up to date with items I have posted about in the past. Hopefully we can develop a fun community.
After some consideration, I have also decided to create a new Twitter profile @ScienceAntics for my two science-related blogs, to separate it from my @RobertaGibson, which will now be chiefly for posts about children’s books/literacy.
I would love to hear your feedback about these changes.
Thank you very much to all my loyal readers.
Roberta
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