Anza-Borrego Desert Lecture 1
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Lecture: Curiosities Of The Desert #1
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Little-known & unusual inhabitants of Anza-Borrego Desert
State Park, from microbes that change the desert landscape
to strange insects and many beautiful & bizarre wildflowers.

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1.   Desert Varnish: Appendaged Bacteria

2.   Desert Stromatolites: Cyanobacteria

3.   Cryptobiotic Crust: Lichens (Algae &
   Fungi), Mosses & Liverworts

4.   Parasitic Flowering Plants: Mistletoe,
   Broomrapes, Sand Plant & Sand Food

            Desert Mistletoe (Phoradendron californicum)
            Desert Broomrape (Orobanche cooperi)
            Sand Plant (Pholisma arenarium)
            Sand Food (Pholisma sonorae): Most Bizarre Wildflower

5.   Pilostyles: A Most Unusual Wildflower

            Dyeweed & Harvester Ants

6.   Duckweed: Smallest Flowering Plant In
   Anza-Borrego Desert

            Duckweed Family Taxonomy Using Morphology
            Arum Family Phylogeny Using Chloroplast DNA

7.   Devil's Claw: Hitchhiker On Big Animals

            Ultimate & Painful Hitchhikers
            The Remarkable Cocklebur

7.   Locoweeds: Wild & Crazy Plants

            Mind Altering Plant Alkaloids
            A Locoweed & A Dead Steer
            Model Of Locoweed Poison Molecule
            Endemic Dune Locoweed & Sand Food

8.   The Bizarre Palm-Boring Beetle

            Links To Spiders & Insects

9.   The Unusual Moth Lacewing

            Link To The Order Neuroptera

10.   The Terrible Sahara Mustard