Template:Did you know nominations/Hypericum punctatum


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:24, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Hypericum punctatum

 * ... that Hypericum punctatum is prone to haploid number irregularities? Source: "...often irregularities occur so that the chromosome complements, at the time of the second metaphase, instead of having the usual haploid number of eight have seven and nine." Hoar, Carl Sherman (1931). "Meiosis in Hypericum punctatum". Botanical Gazette. The University of Chicago Press. 92 (4): 396–406.
 * ALT1:... that though caterpillars often feed on the leaves of Hypericum punctatum, the foliage is toxic to mammals? Source: "...caterpillars of the moth Nedra ramosula (Gray Half-spot) feed on the foliage. Mammalian herbivores usually don't consume this plant because the leaves contain hypericin - a photosensitive toxin." Dr. John Hilty (2017). "Spotted St. John's Wort". Illinois Wildflowers. Retrieved 15 August 2018.

Created by Pagliaccious (talk). Self-nominated at 23:45, 15 August 2018 (UTC).


 * I would've passed this article - I'd assume good faith for offline sources and the entire article is well-cited. However, some prose is copy-pasted from here, which is a problem.
 * I'm unsure of how DYK works in this regard, but I have reworked the ecology section the best I could. I cannot access the Illinois wildflower website which is strange but I tried to rewrite the hypericin section that I remember from the page. If you'd like to look, I believe every book I referenced is available on Google Books besides Gray's Manual of Botany. Can the DYK continue or is the review over after this? Thanks, Pagliaccious (talk) 10:48, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it should be fine now - I'll check it more thoroughly in a bit. Juxlos (talk) 12:59, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Welp, a bit turned out to be a week, but it's now good to go. Juxlos (talk) 13:43, 1 September 2018 (UTC)