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Gerald Holmes, Strawberry Center, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org
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Image Number: 1571799

field preparation

Photographer:
Gerald Holmes
Descriptor:
Greenhouse
Description:
Plastic tunnels serve as miniature greenhouses to heat soil for early germination and to exclude airborne pests.  Tunnels are removed as the crop enlarges and temperatures rise. January 1996
Image type:
Field
Host:
watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai)

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Image location:
, Imperial County

Subject


There is no applicable taxonomy of higher classification for this subject.

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Violales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Citrullus
Subject: Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
Node Affiliation:
Bugwood - UGA
Image uploaded:
Monday, August 17, 2009
Image last updated:
Monday, June 18, 2012