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Plant Activity Books, References, DVDs and Videos
This section includes references, videos and DVD's on medicinal plants, cross-cultural uses of plants, ethnobotany, seed dispersal, spring and fall leaf changes, science fair projects in botany, leaf replicas, books on collecting and preserving plants, silica gels for preserving plants, and flower magnets for the classroom (or the refrigerator).
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Botany Field Equipment - Plant Presses & Supplies
This section includes how-to guides on collecting and preserving plants, student and professional plant presses, plant press driers, and ventilators. Also in this section are smaller plant presses, including the gardener's (flower) press, and a lightweight pocket size field plant press. For more information on the use of plant presses, simply click here.
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Glass-topped Riker Mount Display Cases
These durable glass-topped display cases offer protection for dried specimens, pressed flowers, seeds, bones from owl pellets, gemstones, fossils or feathers. Acorn Naturalists offers three styles of displays: standard 3/4" thick displays in four sizes, extra-depth 2" thick displays in three sizes, and sectional displays with two different trays.
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Plant Identification - Field Guides, Tree Rounds
This section includes plant identification cards, sort key guide to trees, books on grasses, wildflowers, Fandex guides, oak woodland and chaparral science activity kits, books on poison ivy and lichens along with a complete selection of folding pocket magnifiers, stereo microscopes and magnifiers for looking closely at leaf and flower structure. Also tree ring dating kits along with six different kinds of tree rounds (tree cookies): two softwoods (red pine and white pine) and four hardwoods (ash, basswood, red oak and walnut).
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Leaf, Stem, Seed and Crop Identification Kits
This section includes leaf and stem identification games, leaf collections, twig, tree and leaf identification kits, How a Tree Grows kit and the Seed Identification Kit.
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Botanical Displays
In this section you will find a wide variety of botanical displays to help students learn about plant adaptations and identification. Included are displays of leaf shapes and arrangements, stem adaptations, leaf venation, lichen forms, monocot and dicot characteristics, fern life cycles, poison ivy identification, comparisons of hardwoods and softwoods, fruit types, commercial grains and oak leaves and acorns. All botanical displays are mounted in glass-topped Riker® display cases.
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Paper Making Kits, Books and Supplies
Recycled paper and other fiberous materials can be made into beautiful, creative papers. Contained in this section are paper making kits, supplies and activity books.
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Paper Casting Kits, Books and Supplies
Paper casting is similar to paper making but in the case of casting, liquified papers are pressed into molds to produce beautiful raised patterns and designs that can be used in artwork, cards, or displays.
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Leaf Replicas for Leafprint Art
Actual imprints of leaves that have been cast in flexible vinyl for use in creative art projects or as an aid in plant identification. Press with different colors of stamp pads or roll on different colors of block inks to make leaf prints using a brayer. These leaf replicas range from 5" - 9” in length.
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