Published by Daniel Mosquin on January 25, 2019
Halophytes, or salt-tolerant plants, are found in a number of environments: seashores, mangrove swamps, salt marshes & swamps, and, as in today’s photographs, saline semi-deserts. Two halophytic grasses, saltgrass (Distichlis spicata) and alkali-grass (Puccinellia nuttalliana), make an appearance in the images. The top image primarily features saltgrass with perhaps some alkali-grass in the upper right […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on October 25, 2018
A common ornamental houseplant, Aechmea fasciata is native to the rainforests of Brazil. Also known as urn plant or silver vase plant, it does best under filtered lighting which emulates the rainforest canopy.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on August 30, 2018
Thirteen years ago for a blue grama BPotD entry I wrote: “I wanted more of the spikes set against the sky”. I didn’t remember that wish when I photographed this a few weeks ago, I was just attracted to the curled spike against the smoke-hazed sunset sky (due to the fires in British Columbia).
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 11, 2018
Achnatherum hymenoides has a distribution that ranges from British Columbia to northern Mexico, spanning most of the western part of the North American continent (the USDA PLANTS database also suggests an occurrence in Yukon).
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on April 18, 2018
This monocotyledonous species is a member of the Eriocaulaceae, which is a family related to the perhaps more familiar grasses and sedges (all belong to the Order Poales). Sometimes called the pipewort family, this group of plants is distinguishable from many other monocots by having inflorescences arranged in heads. Species in the Eriocaulaceae are mostly […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on March 23, 2018
Queen’s-tears or friendship plant is a bromeliad native to Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. Easy to grow, propagate, and share among friends, it is one of the most popular bromeliads in cultivation.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on August 9, 2017
The next time I visit Savannah, Georgia, I promise to try my best for one of those dreamy “Spanish moss and oak” photographs–something like this one from Celeste Booth’s article on “The Story Behind Spanish Moss” via bromeliads.info.
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