A Wandering Botanist

Costa Rica has been a destination for ecologists since at least the 1970s, well before it had ecotourism infrastructure--one of its streng...

Lilac bushes grew in the yards of the houses in which I grew up and I assumed Americans had always had lilacs. After all, Under the L...

There are some plant confusions out there. Here are three, coral tree and kapok, tea and ti, cassia and cinnamon. Coral tree, ceibo i n Sp...

Floating water hyacinth , Eicornia crassipes The water hyacinth is one of the plants I treasure because I learned about it before I knew...

It's early spring, a few plants are flowering but lawns are still brown and trees are leafless. So let's take a walk from a June tri...

It is spreading all over my yard, but I can't get its name right. I'm used to calling it Oregon grape, but in fact, the one on ...

Pretty red flowers on a small tree, the flowers upturned or curved like crescents. Called coral trees or coral bean, the genus is Erythr...