1. What company had begun logging the Fakahatchee Strand for cypress trees in the 1950s?
(a) Jones Forestry Inc.
(b) The Lee Tidewater Cypress Company.
(c) Steven's Timber Company.
(d) John Smith Swamp Logging.

2. What is Lee Moore's profession, according to CITES and the US Government?
(a) Tour guide.
(b) Fisherman.
(c) Drug smuggler.
(d) Plant smuggler.

3. In Orchid Fever, Susan writes that the international trade in orchids is more than how much per year?
(a) $10 billion.
(b) $700 million.
(c) $2 billion.
(d) $200 million.

4. What refers to a species of grass in the genus Imperata which is placed in the subfamily Panicoideae, supertribe Andropogonodae, tribe Andropogoneae?
(a) Kentucky bluegrass.
(b) Ryegrass.
(c) Asian cogon grass.
(d) Fescue.

5. What refers to a trait that is shared by two or more taxa and their most recent common ancestor, whose ancestor in turn does not possess the trait?
(a) Biomorph.
(b) Morphology.
(c) Symbiosis.
(d) Synapomorphy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers an immersed aquatic plant which originated in South America but has spread to many parts of the world and is considered an invasive species in Australia, China, New Zealand, Thailand and the United States?

2. Who discovered the last species of Cattleya that would be discovered?

3. Orchids are considered the most _____ flowering plants on earth.

4. When did Charles Darwin publish Fertilization of Orchids?

5. What did Laroche do with the stolen orchids which didn't die?

(see the answer key)

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