Florists in Bell Island, NL
Find local Bell Island, Newfoundland florists below that deliver beautiful flowers to residences, business, funeral homes and hospitals in Bell Island and surrounding areas. Choose from roses, lilies, tulips, orchids, carnations and more from the variety of flower arrangements in a vase, container or basket. Place your flower delivery order online of call.
Bell Island Flower Shops
Po Box 569
Bell Island, NL A0A 4H0
(709) 488-2999
Bell Island NL News
Dec 22, 2016Megaherbs: Giant, Endemic Mystery Plants of Campbell Island
The mystery of how these amazing plants produce heat seems to have been solved, however.
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Campbell Island is an exotic and nearly untouched island that even takes Kiwis three days to reach because they have to sail south of the mainland for 600 km. Even though it has a wet, windy and cold climate, with temperatures rarely getting above 10°C, this island has an interesting endemic habitat. Covered with colorful, colossal plants and flowers and weird creatures, the landscape is surprising and eye-pleasing.
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Scientists have spent years trying to explain how Campbell Island’s megaherbs seem to be warmer than the air around them. According to a report on the BBC, botanist Peter Wardle, one species, Pleurophyllum speciosum, has leaves with hairs on the ridges that create a greenhouse effect. This can heat up the leaves to 20°C and make their surface temperature much warmer than the surrounding environment.
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Lorna Little is a botanist who studied the plants for her Ph.D. at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. She has been looking for an explanation for the effect Wardle observed. She has now published her findings in the journal Polar Research.
“The patches of megaherbs look like gardens that someone has put lots of time into,” Little told th... (Interesting Engineering)