Published by Daniel Mosquin on January 29, 2019
Fleshy-stalk pelargonium is a drought-deciduous succulent native to South Africa and Namibia. How fleshy is the stalk? Very.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on November 11, 2018
One hundred years ago today, Private George Lawrence Price (a Canadian) became the last soldier of the-then British Empire to die before the 11 a.m. Armistice of November 11. In the Belgian village of Ville-sur-Haine, Private Price was shot and killed by a sniper at 10:58 a.m.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 12, 2018
I (Kem Luther) was contacted recently by a British Columbia provincial biologist about non-native and invasive mosses. The topic is not much discussed in bryological circles. When compared with the impact of non-native vascular plant species, the ecological issues presented by the invasion of non-vascular flora are relatively benign.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 8, 2018
Frankenia is the sole genus within the Frankeniaceae, or the sea heath family. This flowering plant family has a distribution that covers warm, dry areas of most continents, though the majority of species are Australian. Typically, plants in this family are associated with soils that are either saline, calcareous, or gypsum-rich.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 1, 2018
One of the showier species of ash in terms of floral display, Fraxinus sieboldiana is native to southeastern China, Korea, and Japan. The plant in today’s photograph was grown from seed collected in Japan two decades ago.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on April 23, 2018
One of the oldest-known living plants in the New World tropics is featured today: a 3800 year old underground tree from Brazil. Intrigued?
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on January 16, 2018
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of guest-instructing UBC’s Horticulture Training Program students on a winter twig identification walkabout. For our last species on the list, I couldn’t remember whether we were to look at Quercus robur (common oak or English oak) or Quercus rubra (red oak). We eventually sorted out my forgetfulness (it was the […]
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