Unveiling student photography at Adelaide Botanic Garden
11 July 2024
A group of extremely talented photography students from Brighton Secondary School recently visited Adelaide Botanic Garden tasked with capturing a series of photographs.
Date posted: 30 September 2013
This phase is almost the equivalent of the plant going through puberty! While the plant doesn’t get pimples, it begins to go through fundamental growth and developmental changes.
The plant also moves from its vegetative growth phase (that is, it has been focusing on growing vegetation such as leaves and stems) to reproductive growth (where the reproductive organs, including the ovules and anthers, form in the developing ear). From here, we look forward to the heading phase where we see the grain starting to form...
The plant goes through a large growth spurt where the stems elongate. This process pushes the ‘ear’ of the barley plant towards the top of the crop where it will later emerge and produce the grains. As the plant elongates, the nodes stretch apart (making the internode longer).
If you rub your hands along the stems you can feel the nodes, they are like a small bump along the stem where a new leaf or stem joins. Note that the space between nodes it known as the internode.
11 July 2024
A group of extremely talented photography students from Brighton Secondary School recently visited Adelaide Botanic Garden tasked with capturing a series of photographs.
15 March 2024
The Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium is very pleased to announce that the Director of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia, Mr Michael Harvey, has been elected as the new Chair of the Council of Heads of Australian Botanic Gardens.