### plant | tracheophyte | spermatophyte | angiosperm:

Anemone
* All anemones are poisonous if ingested.
* Greek word meaning wind-flower.
* Many anemones also host symbiotic algae within their cells
  - are hermaphroditic - possessing both sperm and eggs within the same individual
  - clone themselves and form clusters of genetically identical individuals
  - leave little bits of their pedal discs behind when they move
  - live in close association with other organisms
* Most anemones are hardy if given proper water quality and lighting
  - do best in rich, moist soil with the afternoon shade
  - eat crabs
  - grow in habitats
* Most anemones have different grow requirements
  - kinds
  - guts
  - metabolism
  - microscopic algas
  - mouths
  - photosynthetic algas
  - sense organs
  - short vase life
  - live in places
  - obtain nutrients
  - possess tentacles
  - prefer to stay stuck where they are
  - receive oxygen
  - survive in a symbiotic relation with with a marine algae called zooxanthellae
  - thrive in zones
* Some anemones are also more likely to move than others
  - become prey
  - divide into two different parts
  - glide along their pedal discs like a snail or move like an inchworm
* Some anemones have basal disks
  - brains
  - digestive enzymes
  - necessary digestive enzymes
  - sting tentacles
  - stingers
  - tubes
  - help crabs
* Some anemones kill prey
  - sea slugs
  - piggyback on the shells of hermit crabs
  - possess suckers
* Some anemones provide food
  - homes
* Some anemones require bright light
* are always interesting to look inside or underneath
  - cnidarians, a group including corals and jellies
  - easy to grow
  - fascinating coral reef animals, which possess stinging cells to capture their prey
  - hermaphroditic but each individual produces only one kind of gamete at any one time
* are like potato chips or buttered movie theater popcorn
  - single mums but with a rounded crest of deeper color
* are located in asses
  - books
  - bugs
  - cartoons
  - catalogs
  - dictionaries
  - dirt
  - floral arrangements
* are located in flower beds
  - pots
  - forests
  - greenhouses
  - japans
  - kelp forests
  - maines
  - marsh
  - meadows
  - nurseries
  - ponds
  - pools
  - reefs
  - salt water
  - saltwater aquariums
  - saltwaters
  - sea water
  - seafood restaurants
  - slides
  - stores
  - tide pools
  - meat eating animals
  - members of the buttercup family
  - one of the most recognizable organisms in our tanks even to laypersons
  - perennials that have basal leaves with long leaf-stems that can be upright or prostrate
  - responsible for drawing countless aquarists into the reef keeping hobby
  - sessile, attaching themselves, like the hydras, to a substrate
  - similar to corals in that they both have polyps that are used for obtaining food
  - small blossoming flowers available in a rainbow of colors
  - solitary polyps that lack a skeleton
* belong to the buttercup family
  - phylum Cnidaria, which means stinging animals
* bloom in springs.
* can be semi-aggressive and sting other anemones that invade their space.
* catches prey attracted by clownfish and anemone gets nutrients from clownfish feces.
* close up when the tide is out, keeping in the moisture necessary for survival.
* consists of two vents that often play independently.
* contain an acrid compound called anemonin.
* exhibit variation.
* feed on fish, shrimp and plankton.
* form some interesting mutualistic relationships with other organisms.
* gain extra nourishment
* has two vents.
* have algas
  - an orderly frame of tame petals surrounding a frizzy center
* have stinging cells called nematocysts that keep away most predators
  - in their tentacles that can hurt an attacking octopus
  - tentacles which paralyze their prey, and bring their prey towards their mouth
  - carpels
  - cell membranes
  - coelenterons
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - ears
  - faces
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - skulls
  - vacuoles
  - well over one hundred years
* look good, and grow, well in flower beds or rock gardens.
* make good container plants, too.
* makes a great little companion to plant around larger bulbs.
* occur in fine patches, and buttercups, and several species of daisies and lupines.
* often shelter small shrimps in their tentacles.
* patens grows very well in a grazed habitat.
* play many roles in the ecosystems where they live.
* release toxins.
* rely on stinging cells located in their tentacles to capture prey like shrimps and crabs.
* reproduce in a variety of ways.
* require bright light in order to survive
  - very clean water and high quality lighting
* suffer a variety of plant diseases.
* tend to stay in one place, but can slide along.
* usually attach themselves to rocks or the substrate in the aquarium.