Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 29, 2018
In the Botany Photo of the Day entry on Sidalcea malviflora, Taisha noted that two of the difficulties in checkermallow taxonomy are gynodioecy and morphological variation. Today’s photographs of Henderson’s checkermallow illustrate both of these challenges.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 1, 2017
A different follow-up to the recent posting on Delphinium menziesii, this one due to scientific name instead of place. Thanks to David Eickhoff for commenting in that entry about some of the Hawaiian species named for Menzies.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on August 5, 2015
Brachychiton rupestris is endemic to Queensland, Australia, but both of today’s photos are of cultivated plants in California.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 15, 2015
Today, we feature a lovely photo of four Hibiscus moscheutos subsp. palustris flower buds, nearly ready to grace us with their elegant, 10cm-wide flowers.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 4, 2015
In Malagasy, the national language of Madagascar, baobabs are commonly called renala, which means “mother of the forest”. I see a melancholic beauty in Grandidier’s baobab; they are by far the largest “beings” in the landscape, and maybe also the oldest, surviving for many hundreds of years. In the past, Adansonia grandidieri was indeed a […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 19, 2015
Surprisingly, both flowers in today’s photographs are of the same species, and perhaps even from the same tree; Thespesia populneoides flowers are yellow with a touch of red toward the base when in full bloom but turn red or pink following anthesis (full bloom).
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 13, 2013
Sidalcea is a genus of about 25 species, with confusion of delimiting species due to supposed hybridization, morphological variation, and gynodioecy. The malvaceous Sidalcea malviflora has seven accepted subspecies. These subspecies are mostly endemic to California, but some can be found in Oregon and Baja California. Generally, checkerbloom or checkermallow grows in more or less […]
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