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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Barbecued Doves.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. What genus of plants were brought to south Florida as an ornamental landscape plant from Australia?
(a) Melaleuca.
(b) Stemona.
(c) Pentastemona.
(d) Croomia.

5. What time of smuggling did Lee Moore's wife regale when she met Susan?
(a) Pre-Columbian art phase.
(b) Nazi memorabilia phase.
(c) Post-WWI art phase.
(d) Pre-Benedectine art phase.

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. 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?

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

4. There are over how many known species of orchids?

5. What type of orchid produces a series of adjacent shoots which grow to a certain size, bloom and then stop growing, to be then replaced?

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