Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 11, 2018
Mexican ball moss is not a true moss. Like its close relative, Spanish moss, it is a member of the pineapple family (Bromeliaceae).
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on July 17, 2018
Two billion dollars is the estimated annual crop value of Agaricus bisporus. Its common names in English include: common mushroom, culinary mushroom, button mushroom, table mushroom, and portobello mushroom.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 13, 2018
Peacock flower or Mexican shellflower is native to México, Guatamemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. It has also escaped cultivation as an ornamental plant, and naturalized in parts of central America and South America.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 31, 2018
This Mexican morning glory was photographed along a busy roadside in México, just outside of the city of San Miguel de Allende. My travel companion for the October morning, David Tarrant (also a frequent BPotD contributor), made sure to stop here to let me get a few photographs before we continued on to see the […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on February 20, 2018
It is a long road to Xilitla from San Miguel de Allende in México; six hours of driving without stopping. Stops are however necessary, not only for enjoying the plants along the way at the height of wildflower season, but also for the calls of nature. Sometimes the two are combined.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on February 1, 2018
I wavered in my identification of today’s plant. Is it Salvia microphylla (blackcurrant sage) or Salvia greggii (autumn sage)? Complicating matters is that the two have overlapping ranges in the mid- to high-elevations of eastern Mexico, and, apparently, the two species will hybridize.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on December 8, 2017
This year’s springtime trip to the corridor from Tucson (Arizona) to California’s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park gave me an opportunity to reacquaint with Fouquieria splendens, or ocotillo. Although the plants had leafed-out, few if any were in flower so my traveling companions and I ended up chasing the wonderful wildflower display. Perhaps I took a […]
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