Published by Daniel Mosquin on October 31, 2005
The common name for this tomato relative is “kangaroo apple”, which hints at its native distribution: Australia and New Zealand.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on October 30, 2005
Unfortunately, I need to attach “unknown cultivar” alongside the name as it may be a cultivar that I’m not familiar with; there are at least sixty selections in cultivation, after all. For a gardening perspective, read this article on nasturtium by Dr. William Welch of Texas A&M University.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on October 29, 2005
For more about today’s plant, see this thread on the garden’s forums (with other photographs, including some that are just a touch more true-to-life).
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on October 28, 2005
The boulder beneath this miniature jungle was part of the same rock slide as the rock in the BPotD entry on lichen diversity, yet it supports different organisms.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on October 27, 2005
There is much to write about black cottonwood, including: how it’s a “hot plant in biology” because its genome has been sequenced; its ethnobotanical uses; and who its closest relatives are (see Hamzeh, M and Dayanandan, S. 2004. Phylogeny of Populus (Salicaceae) based on nucleotide sequences of chloroplast TRNT-TRNF region and nuclear rDNA. Am. J. […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on October 26, 2005
I visited the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia on the weekend to wine-taste and snap a few photographs of the vineyards. Typical of my inopportune timing, I went several weeks after the Fall Okanagan Wine Festival so wine inventory was spotty at a few places, but there was still much to taste and photograph. These […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on October 25, 2005
The boulder forming the substrate for these lichens was part of the Hope Slide forty years ago. Unless this rock was previously exposed as part of mountainside (which I doubt), forty years of lichen colonization and growth have led to this mosaic containing six species or more.
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