Floral morphology

Floral morphology opened with a playlist on flowers and reproduction in angiosperms. The coconut pollination and hybridization video cannot be understood - the speakers attached to the SMARTboard, the acoustics of A101, and the heavy accent of the speaker rendered the audio incomprehensible. Works well on personal computer in a quiet office. 

After the video I took the approach of the prior spring and reinforced concepts on the board, starting with a diagram of the whorls in a flower bud. The Asteraceae diagram was put up last and was illustrated using images of Sphagneticola trilobata on the SMARTboard.

After the bud diagram I added a full solitary flower diagram.

Then I reinforced the monocot/dicot symmetry differences. 

Including a diagram of Spathoglottis plicata to illustrate the sixth petal. At this point the time was 16:37. I opted not to then hike the campus - there remain too few flowers for illustrative purposes. Too, I had not seen Spathoglottis miconesiaca blooming in the area across the road that I usually utilize. Add in all the construction on campus and the movement limitations those and the fence pose, and I tossed in the towel on a walk. 

The flower color - personality exercise is good, but could use embellishing at this point. Perhaps the addition of whether the flower is a monocot or dicot, the number of sepals, petals, and anthers. The full labeling lab would be beyond the time frame, unless I dumped the videos altogether except the meanings video. But then I would be duplicating the SC 250 laboratory, and I have student overlap from that course. Perhaps leave well enough alone. Still, this exercise needs some sort of development. I added a couple more colors, although green might seem odd, there is always Cananga odorata.