A Wandering Botanist
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
Sunday, January 26, 2020
Plant Story--Mountain Mahogany, Tough Little Tree
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Mountain mahogany, Cercocarpus montanus (rose family, Rosaceae) is a native shrub or small tree of the foothills of the Rockies and acro...
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Sunday, January 19, 2020
Playing Cupid for the Double Coconut
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World's largest seed: double coconut Lodoica malvidica see in Foster Botanical Garden, Honolulu The fitbit is for scale, but better...
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Sunday, January 12, 2020
Plant Story--Double Coconut, World's Largest Seed
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In April 2018, I visited Foster Botanical Garden in Honolulu, Hawaii, and saw this: Double coconut ( Lodoicea maldivica ) seed, April 201...
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Sunday, January 5, 2020
Looking at 2020
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Happy New Year! 2020. I decided to make 2020 "the Year of 2020 Vision," reviewing my activities and all my stuff, asking if ...
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Plant Story--the Iconic Fireweed
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fireweed, Epilobium angustifolium Fireweed is one of the most recognizable flowers of the Rocky Mountains. They are tall spikes of mage...
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Sunday, December 22, 2019
Walking Beaches
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"Life is a beach."That might have been my father's motto. A metalurgist, he became a serious amateur seashell collector, retir...
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Plant Story--Black Pepper, Everyone's Spice
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Black pepper, Piper nigrum (pepper family Piperaceae) has been an important commodity for millennia. We get it as a dark powder, or if y...
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