A Wandering Botanist

My first memory of wisteria is of my father digging out a big plant, shaped like a small tree that was growing at the end of the driveway...

star-lily, sand-lily, Leucocrinum montanum Early in the spring on the Rocky Mountain Front Range, star-lilies ( Leucocrinum montanum ) ...

Early in my career as an ecologist, I had the opportunity to explore a stand of mangroves. I haven't wanted to do it again.

Waikiki beach from the Hau Tree Lanai restaurant, dawn ( hau is sea hibiscus, Hibiscus tiliaceus , lanai is Hawaiian for a partly-roofe...

Mountain mahogany, Cercocarpus montanus  (rose family, Rosaceae) is a native shrub or small tree of the foothills of the Rockies and acro...

World's largest seed: double coconut Lodoica malvidica  see in Foster Botanical Garden, Honolulu The fitbit is for scale, but better...

In April 2018, I visited Foster Botanical Garden in Honolulu, Hawaii, and saw this: Double coconut ( Lodoicea maldivica ) seed, April 201...