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Asparagaceae

The foliage of Yucca baileyi

Yucca baileyi

Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 16, 2005

Bang! I was inspired to photograph this alpine yucca after Judy Newton, UBC Botanical Garden‘s soon-to-be-retiring education coordinator, featured it in a lecture on Tuesday. Despite being native to New Mexico and Arizona, this plant does quite well in our well-drained alpine garden. Not the typical sort of plant one expects to see in Vancouver!

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Maianthemum oleraceum in flower

Maianthemum oleraceum

Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 4, 2005

Thanks to the convergence of powerful computers, molecular phylogenetics and statistical techniques, a tsunami of change is being experienced in the field of plant systematics. The understanding of the evolutionary relationships between different plants continues to advance, and as that occurs, the conventions scientists use to communicate about the plants must change. Since the names […]

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Scilla peruviana in bloom

Scilla peruviana

Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 2, 2005

Photographed in the Alpine Garden during the early morning.

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Camassia quamash in bloom

Camassia quamash

Published by Daniel Mosquin on April 25, 2005

I missed out on my opportunity to go on the Friends of Ecological Reserves annual field trip to Trial Island on Sunday. One of the rare plants that can be seen there is Castilleja levisecta, the golden paintbrush, which I’m keenly interested in photographing (have a look at the photo in the linked page to […]

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