Published by Daniel Mosquin on November 9, 2018
Grevillea longifolia is a narrow-range endemic with a distribution restricted to New South Wales in Australia. Within New South Wales, Grevillea longifolia is primarily found in the southern half of the Sydney Basin and the Woronora Plateau. It grows in moist forests on yellow clay soils and Sydney Basin Hawkesbury Sandstone, typically along the banks […]
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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 October 15, 2018
Securigera varia, also known as Coronilla varia, is a tough, aggressively-spreading, low-growing legume (to 60cm (~2 ft.)). Known for its beautiful crown-like inflorescence, its other names include crown vetch and purple crown vetch. The native range of crown vetch is Eurasia and northern Africa, but it has become established in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on October 5, 2018
Aptly named “butterfly flower” in Chinese for its appearance, Iris japonica is native to Japan, Myanmar (Burma) and China. Other common names for this species include fringed iris and shaga.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 28, 2018
Scarlet banana is cultivated in tropical climates around the world, including Colombia (where this photo was taken). Its native range, however, is restricted to southeastern China and Vietnam. Of note, it is now extinct in the wild in Guangdong.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 25, 2018
Commonly known as golden bartonia or Lindley’s blazingstar, Mentzelia lindleyi is an annual species native to California’s Coast Ranges near San Francisco.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 18, 2018
Last Friday, the UBC Horticulture Training Program students were treated to a lecture about Eurasian medicinal plants and a tour of the physic garden with Ukrainian botanical pharmacologist Anastasiia Dushyna. Pulicaria dysenterica was not one of the plants highlighted on the tour, but it likely would have been, had we been growing it in the […]
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