Plants in the Hawaiian Environment

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Plants in the Hawaiian Environment

Botany 130 130L
Laura Brezinsky Ph.D.
Bus ED 105, 974-7481, laura@hawaii.edu
Office hours Tu 10:30-11:30, Th 1:30-2:30 or by arrangement

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January

15 Introduction

Please inform me of any physical limitations or special needs within the first class week.

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Please Review the Class Requirements

Reading Assignment: Plants and Flowers of Hawai`i pages 7-12

Assignments:

-Go to the class web site (web.hawcc.hawaii.edu/hawcc/laurab/generalbotany), print out the risk release, sign it and bring it to class.

-Print out the plant ID sheet and make 100 copies, you will need these for the field trips.

17 The Formation of the Hawaiian Islands/A Brief Geological History/What is a Native Hawaiian Plant?

Assignment: Review the following outline on The Scientific System of Classification

22 -The Scientific System of Classification

-Leaf shapes, venation patterns and plant stem configurations.

Video: Hawai`i Born of Fire

-Work in the garden. Note: Come prepared to do some serious garden work. Bring water, wear clothes that can get dirty.

24 Scientific Classification/Plant Divisions

Reading Assigment: Plants and Flowers of Hawai`i pages 39-57

-choose research projects and partners

*The following is due 2/7*

-Look up information on the plant that you have chosen to grow. This is your plant species for the semester. Use all the resources in the library, on the internet and in the books you have purchased. Begin with any propagation information that may be found in Growing Native Hawaiian Plants. Be sure to look up your plant in Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai`i (found on reserve in the library for this class). This book is considered to be the best reference on native Hawaiian flowering plant taxonomy and is required reading for this class. You will have some difficulty with the terminology but there is a good glossary at the end of Volume 2...make sure you check out both volumes together. Write a 3-5 page paper on your plant. Include the scientific name, description, distribution, status, reproductive mode, ethnobotanical uses, threats effecting its survival (if any), and any other interesting or important information concerning your research plant. This paper will become the introduction for your final report.

29 –Short Guest Lecture/Hokuau Pellegrino will be talking about the Imiloa Native Plant Garden that you will be visiting next month

-Vegetation Zones and Kipuka in Hawai`i; What they are, how they are formed and how they effect the types of plants that grow.

Begin Research Projects. If your seeds need to be prepared, come with seeds ready to plant. Make sure you have researched any available information on methods of propagation of your plant found in Growing native Hawaiian Plants (or anywhere else you may find information).

31 Ferns (Pterophyta), and Mosses (Bryophyta); What they are, where they grow, how they reproduce and how they are identified

Reading Assignment:

-Ferns of Hawai`i, Pages 1-16

February

5 Angiosperms (Flowering Plants); What they are, how they reproduce, why they are so diverse.

Flower structure

Angiosperm life cycle

The difference between monocot and dicot Angiosperms.

Monocot vs Dicot seed germination

Work in the garden

7 *Turn in your introductions*

Video: May Earth Live

Plant List for Tuesday’s Trip

NOTE: I will expect you all to generate your own plant lists for the rest of our field trips as listed on this website. This is just intended as an example for the first trip.

12 Field Trip: Wet Lowland `Ohi`a/Hapu`u forest-Ku `Ohi`a Laka (Mountain View)

14 Plant Evolution in Hawaii and Specific Origins of Hawaii's Plants/Brief review of plants for Tuesday's trip

Reading Assignment: Plants & Flowers of Hawai`i pages 21-36

19 Field Trip to The Imiloa Native Plant Garden. Come prepared as instructed (Plant ID Sheets-blanks in this case, good shoes, water, rain gear etc).

Special opportunity: I have made reservations for us to attend the 2:00 planetarium showing titled Mauna Kea Between Earth and Sky. This is an optional, voluntary activity. There is a $6.00 fee for students which you will have to pay. Please let me know if you want to attend but have financial constraints.

21 Quiz #1: All lecture topics as well as plant identification

NOTE! You are allowed to use your plant ID references that you are creating so be sure to have them up to date in order and bring them with you!!

26 Field Trip: Mesic Forests and Kipuka: Bird Park (Volcano)

28 Lecture/Scientific Methodology

-Bring in your Introductions, Methods and Materials, Results and any other material you have developed for your research paper. I will go over what you have and make suggestions.

March

4 Guest Lecturer: Mililani will be talking about the Ola`a-Kilauea project and the Service-Learning trip to participate in that project on April 5.

-Brief introduction to graphing. Bring graph paper with you

-work on projects etc in the shade house

6 Video: The Private Life of Plants

11 Field Trip: Kipuka and the formation of our Hawaiian Islands-Pu`u Huluhulu (Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park)

13 Lecture: The path of water/how plants absorb, use and lose water. Native plant adaptations to various humidity zones.

electron micrograph of stomata
stomata and guard cells

-Naupaka

Kahakai

vs Naupaka Kuahiwi
-Desert `Ohi`a vs forest `Ohi`a

18 Photosynthesis Notes

-Plant Cell

-Chloroplast