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#18 - Peculiar Plants
November/December 2008
A lily pad so large a child can use it as a boat. A plant that eats flies for dinner. A vine that grows so quickly it devours buildings. Yikes! Our world is filled with thousands of plants and some of them are downright bizarre. We're taking a closer look at peculiar plants in this issue of KNOW. We've also packed in articles that help explain how ice is smoothed between the periods of hockey games, how your ears work, and we visit with the largest fish in the sea. As usual, you'll find lots of hands-on fun in our KNOW Fun and KNOW How departments. Don't forget to look for the knowms' pets: Lop Lop, Tahi, Lemondrop, Maestro, and Sharky.
Table
of Contents
9. Bait and Bite, Stick and Slurp
With more than 400,000 kinds of plants in the world, some of them are bound to be bizarre. Ready to meet some?
16. Know it Alls
The Vine That Ate the South isnt from a horror movie. Its real!
17. Science in Action
Climbing trees is all in a days work for this scientist.
22. Great Moments in Science
This man picked a prickly seed off his dog and went on to make millions.
24. KNOW Fun
Check out the Peculiar Plant Show at the Persnickety Palms!
Departments
3. KNOW News
6. KNOW It, KNOW You, KNOW Them
18. Story Stop
20. KNOW How
23. Close-Up
26. Sky Spies
27. Digging Dinos
28. Reviewed by You
29. Comic Captions
30. KNOW and Tell
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