Susie, sorry, but you were the one who was seeming to poo-poo others for talking about the grammar being wrong and indicating that it is too frivolous to talk about in this world of huge problems. In other words, belittling those who cared enough to discuss the question. I wasn't saying you should keep quiet; my post was because it seemed to me that you were\ saying that people who were finding fault with the grammar were petty and shouldn't be caring about it. It's all in interpretation. My interpretation was that you were dishing it out.

laticauda(OK - zone 7) I think I read somewhere that to make a room have clean air (not just cleaner air) it takes like 15-20 6-inch potted plants. For one room. If plants can make a room clean (not just cleaner) why United States Enviromental Protection Agency does not write about it at all? Residential Air Cleaners (Second Edition): A Summary of Available Information Sourse: http://www.epa.gov/iedweb00/pubs/residair.html#Will-Air-Cleaning-Reduce-Health-Effects Quote: "Some air cleaners may produce new, potentially toxic pollutants or may re-disperse old ones". It's interesting to know can live plant produce new, potentially toxic pollutatns or re-disperse ones? For example, Sansevieria or SPider Plant.

Not interested in plowing through all of those issues with you, other than the interrelationships between plants and insects. Any plant that is not pollinated by wind or water has a relationship with insects or animals of some sort. Some of these interactions are extremely specific......an orchid that disguises itself as a type of wasp so that the insect will mate with it, collecting pollen structures (look up pollinia) in the process. Some Stapelia have flowers that look and smell like rotting flesh in order to attract their pollinators. Bees, of course, are attracted to flowers by sight and scent and are rewarded for their pollination by large amounts of energy rich pollen and nectar. Plants, all of them, can be said to conform to a fundamental law of evolution: Form Follows Function. Nothing about any plant occurs without a purpose. They have evolved to take advantage of insects, a vast number of birds, and mammals. There are plants which have seeds that must pass through the intestinal tract of a fruit bat in order to germinate! About mycorrhizae....since nearly ALL plants (90-95%) make use of or rely on mycorrhizal relationships with fungi in the wild, I would assume that Sansevieria does. To research it further, look up the family (Asparagaceae) relationship.

I remember it being pronounced as Berenstain Bears but also remember thinking that it was an odd pronunciation given that it was written Berenstein Bears. I think its actually a test run of a nefarious plot to rewrite history and convince everyone to doubt their own memory. What's next? Trying to convince people that President Agnew's 6 years in office wasn't one of the most transformative events in American History? Its crazy I tell ya.