{"id":65,"date":"2022-05-05T19:17:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T19:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/plant-crop-science-outreach\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2022-05-17T19:48:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T19:48:02","slug":"colouring-fascinating-plants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/plant-crop-science-outreach\/fascination-of-plants-2022\/colouring-fascinating-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Colouring Fascinating Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get your crayons, pencils and pens ready!<\/p>\n

Colour our extraterrestrial plants, our beautiful garden with a glasshouse, or 1000 leaves.<\/p>\n

We think plants are out of this world! If you do too, why not try colouring in our extraterrestrial plant friends Astro Arabidopsis, Cosmic Cowpea & Wayfaring Wheat.<\/p>\n

Click in the name or in the image to open and download.<\/p>\n

Astro Arabidopsis<\/a>. <\/strong>Arabidopsis is always discovering new scientific frontiers. In fact, Arabidopsis was the first plant to flower and make seeds in space!<\/p>\n

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Wayfaring Wheat<\/a>. <\/strong>Like arabidopsis, wheat has been to space! Click here<\/a> to watch a short video of wheat & arabidopsis growing in the international space station.<\/p>\n

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Cosmic Cowpea<\/strong><\/a>. Cowpea hasn’t been to space… yet… But because it grows tasty leaves very quickly, NASA has considered growing cowpea in space to feed astronauts. Fingers crossed cowpea!<\/p>\n

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Visit and colour our beautiful garden and glasshouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Leaves, leaves, leaves<\/a>!! They come in all shapes and colours and are different from plant to plant, and can change within a plant as it ages, adapt to the environment or defends itself animals that eat them. You can find more about leaf shapes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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