HORTICULTURE 370B
LECTURE EXAM I
INCLUDES GROUP I AND II
AS WELL AS HANDOUT INFORMATION
DUE: APRIL 26, 1995
Name:____________________________.
I. True or False: Circle the correct answer.
T or F 1. A pyrene is an incendiary bomb.
T or F 2. A pyrene is the "seed" of a holly.
T or F 3. A pyrene is the fruit of a holly.
T or F 4. A pyrene is closely related to a terpene.
T or F 5. All four of the above are virtually worthless and inane questions.
T or F 6. Ilex is always dioecious.
T or F 7. Holly fruits are poisonous to birds.
T or F 8. Ilex is consistently evergreen.
T or F 9. Any holly can pollinate any other as long as they flower at the same time (think about this).
T or F 10. A male holly can pollinate a female holly as long as they flower at the same time.
T or F 11. Hollies, in general, are relatively insect and disease free.
T or F 12. Hollies are easy to transplant.
T or F 13. Hollies are always opposite in leaf arrangement.
T or F 14. The only way to ascertain the sex of a particular seedling holly is to wait until it flowers.
T or F 15. Hollies are easy to root from cuttings.
T or F 16. Holly seeds germinate within two weeks of sowing.
T or F 17. Ilex x attenuata is a grex name for any hybrid between I. cassine and I. opaca.
T or F 18. Ilex cornuta and cultivars are extremely heat and cold tolerant.
T or F 19. Ilex cornuta and cultivars are extremely heat tolerant.
T or F 20. Ilex cornuta 'Carissa' is larger than 'Dwarf Burford' at maturity.
T or F 21. Ilex x attenuata 'Fosteri', 'Savannah', and I. glabra produce red fruits.
T or F 22. The above are female.
T or F 23. Ilex cornuta 'Rotunda' is a branch sport from 'Carissa'.
T or F 24. Ilex glabra, I. vomitoria and I. crenata are amenable to culture in wet soils.
T or F 25. The best, i.e., most popular tree type Ilex is 'Nellie Stevens'.
T or F 26. Ilex decidua and I. verticillata are magnificent for winter color, i.e., red fruits.
T or F 27. Ilex vomitoria 'Nana' is female; 'Shillings' a male.
T or F 28. Vinca major is more drought tolerant than Vinca minor.
T or F 29. Vinca species, in general, are quite invasive and can dominate the ground plane in shady environments.
T or F 30. Vinca minor produces only blue flowers.
T or F 31. Trachelospermum asiaticum is more cold hardy than T. jasminoides.
T or F 32. Nerium is more cold hardy than Vinca than Trachelospermum.
T or F 33. Fatsia, x Fatshedera, and Hedera are excellent shade tolerant groundcovers.
T or F 34. The 3 to 5-lobed leaf form of Hedera helix always flowers and fruits.
T or F 35. Hedera helix is a true clinging vine.
T or F 36. Mahonia aquifolium is better adapted to the southeast than Mahonia bealei.
T or F 37. Mahonia has spines; Berberis is thornless.
T or F 38. All (most) Berberidaceae members have yellow cambia.
T or F 39. Nandina domestica is an adaptable evergreen suited to culture in sun and shade.
T or F 40. Buxus species are amenable to hard (heavy) pruning.
T or F 41. Buxus sempervirens appears to suffer from the vagaries of climate and pests more so than Buxus microphylla var. japonica.
T or F 42. Pachysandra terminalis is more evergreen than P. procumbens.
T or F 43. Ilex cornuta, Pachysandra procumbens, and Sarcococca confusa have fragrant flowers.
T or F 44. Sarcococca, Pachysandra, and Aucuba taxa are great full sun plants.
T or F 45. The above are great shade plants.
T or F 46. Euonymus fortunei and E. japonicus always produce fruits.
T or F 47. Euonymus japonicus is not a first class shrub for general landscape use.
T or F 48. Kalmia latifolia, Pieris japonica, and Leucothoe populifolia have fragrant flowers.
T or F 49. Pieris and Kalmia thrive in heavy wet soils.
T or F 50. Elaeagnus pungens is unmatched for spring floral fragrance.
II. Rank and File: Place in order of characteristic(s) enumerated.
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