Plant Lab

This week in Mr. Ghosh's Class we will be starting an in depth study of the plant of our choice. We will be taking samples directly from the tissue of the plant and studying them under the micoscope as well as studying the development of the plant and writing an in depth report of our findings. The plant I have chosen to work with is the Gerber Daisy

Here is some information of the Gerber Daisy Taken from Wikipedia.org

“Gerbera L., is a genus of ornamental plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). It was named in honor of the German naturalist Traugott Gerber, a friend of Carolus Linnaeus.
It has approximately 30 species in the wild, extending to South America, Africa, Madagascar, and tropical Asia. The first scientific description of a Gerbera was made by J.D. Hooker in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1889 when he described Gerbera jamesonii, a South African species also known as Transvaal daisy or Barberton Daisy.
Gerbera species bear a large capitulum with striking, 2-lipped ray florets in yellow, orange, white, pink or red colors. The capitulum, which has the appearance of a single flower, is actually composed of hundreds of individual flowers. The morphology of the flowers varies depending on their position in the capitulum.
Gerbera is commercially important. It is the fifth most used cut flower in the world (after rose, carnation, chrysanthemum, and tulip). It is also used as a model organism in studying flower formation. Gerbera contains naturally occurring coumarin derivatives.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbera