HORT2 - Unit 4 Test

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  1. 6. This cooling systems reduces watering due to higher humidity created by evaporation from the dripping water in the cool pad
  2. 9. This structure has the highest percentage of light transmission.
  3. 12. "Carpet Box" Herbaceous perennial evergreen typically used as a rhizomatous ground cover. It thrives in partial to full shade. his plant can spread aggressively and it is difficult to remove. I
  4. 14. Irrigation wherein tubes with emitters go to individual pots for water. A very efficient way to water
  5. 15. Expanded volcanic rock.
  6. 16. Having a misleading name, this plant is highly poisonous to humans. Its a wiry shrub with branches that scramble or climb if support is provided. It is one of the fastest-growing, least demanding houseplants
  7. 17. Powdery insects with four white wings
  8. 18. These panels are flexible, 3-6 mil thick, opaque, and relatively expensive
  9. 19. Roof slopes in one direction only. Generally faces south
  10. 20. This equipment is used for lights, shade cloth, irrigation, etc
  11. 23. At least 6 hours of sun each day
  12. 26. Produces sword-shaped, medium green leaves in upright fans and funnel-shaped flowers on slender scapes from summer into fall and has a wide variety of flower colors
  13. 27. Green soft bodied, winged or non-winged, sucking insect.
  14. 30. Seedlings fall over causing the stem to rot.
  15. 32. "Purple Passion Vine" Prefers bright, indirect light This plant has weak stems and a sprawling growth habit:
  16. 34. Removal of the top portion of a plant to make the plant more compact.
  17. 35. Lower leaves are brown, rotting and drying out
  18. 36. White cottony, sucking insect.
  19. 39. Thrive in moist wet environments, larva feed on plant roots and new callused tissue
  20. 40. This subtropical broadleaf evergreen succulent that is a popular houseplant. Means egg-shaped referring to the thick, fleshy leaves. Loves a sunny spot and well-drained loamy soil.
  21. 41. Quonset houses set on sidewalls
  22. 42. "Pepper face" Tropical evergreen perennial growing to 10" tall and broad with cupped leathery leaves and narrow spikes of white flowers up to 5" long, which grow in a shiny, winding manner
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  1. 1. This pulls hot air from the greenhouse
  2. 2. Removal of spent or dead flower
  3. 3. Plants that live more than two years
  4. 4. The flowers appear above a rosette of leaves on tall petioles and are usually in reds. It prefers rich, moist, well-drained soil.
  5. 5. compressed peat moss covered in a fine mesh that expands when soaked in water
  6. 7. This perennial is grown as an annual. Shape of the flower heads resembles a dragon snout
  7. 8. Curved roof bars covered with plastic or fiberglass panels
  8. 10. "Honey plant""Porcelain flower" It has long slender vines covered with waxy, deep green leathery leaves sometimes flecked with silver or creamy white. Loves humidity.
  9. 11. Irrigation system that waters greenhouses or shadehouses but may not give the deep watering some plants need.
  10. 13. This plant is an invasive species in NC. A rapidly growing, deciduous, drought-tolerant shrub native to Asia that thrives in full sun with drainage. "Summer Lilac"
  11. 21. Expanded mica, sterile.
  12. 22. This circulates air in the greenhouse even when the exhaust fan is not running
  13. 24. has leaf projections that are more scalloped or teardrop shaped. fleshy stems and showy leaves and grows well as a houseplant, preferring moisture
  14. 25. collects and stores heat from the sun (radiant heat)
  15. 28. Decomposing parts of sphagnum moss typically found deep in bogs
  16. 29. a low-growing, spreading, evergreen ground cover that may be classified as herbaceous perennial. Flowers are small, white, 4-petaled, and appear in dense clusters
  17. 31. This greenhouse covering panels consists of Twin wall and corrugated panels and is relatively expensive
  18. 33. Liking partial shade, its coarsely branched, flowering, deciduous shrub that grows up to 6.5 ft. tall. This plant blooms in mid- to late spring and is gigantic
  19. 37. Roof is equal in width and pitch on both sides. Most commonly used as a single greenhouse
  20. 38. "Iron Plant" Evergreen, rhizomatous perennial that loves deep shade and is drought tolerant