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The leaf is usually the primary site of photosynthesis in plants.

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water, using the green pigment chlorophyll. Exceptions are parasitic plants that have lost the genes for chlorophyll and photosynthesis, and obtain their energy from other plants or fungi.

There are about 380,000 known species of plants, of which the majority, some 260,000, produce seeds. They range in size from single cells to the tallest trees. Green plants provide a substantial proportion of the world's molecular oxygen; the sugars they create supply the energy for most of Earth's ecosystems; other organisms, including animals, either consume plants directly or rely on organisms which do so. (Full article...)

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Grandidier's Baobab, Adansonia grandidieri (Malvaceae)
Grandidier's Baobab, Adansonia grandidieri (Malvaceae)
Credit: Bernard Gagnon
Adansonia grandidieri (Grandidier's Baobab), the biggest and most famous of Madagascar's six baobabs, is an endangered species in the genus Adansonia. It is endemic to Madagascar. A. grandidieri is named to commemorate the French botanist and explorer, Alfred Grandidier (1836–1921).

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