Burundi is one of the smallest countries in Africa, and its plant list is still being written. Meso’s national checklist counts about 1,600 plants, a single savanna reserve (Ruvubu National…
TLDR: The Key Facts Contents Why Armenia Has So Many Plants The numbers come from elevation. Armenia drops to about 375 meters in the Debed canyon and climbs to 4,090…
A winterberry in January is a bare gray shrub hung with thousands of red beads, and it’s the best argument for planting colorful berries. Most gardens go flat after the…
Germany has no single “German flora.” It has six or seven distinct ones, stacked by habitat: beech forest floors that bloom before the leaves open, Alpine meadows above 1,500 meters,…
Switzerland’s native plants sort themselves by altitude better than almost any flora in Europe. Walk up from a valley hay meadow to a scree slope at 2,800 meters and you…
Taiga vegetation is dominated by conifers: spruce, fir, pine and larch. Underneath them sits a thin ground layer of mosses, lichens and low berry shrubs, with birch, aspen and alder…
Cameroon is called “Africa in miniature” because it packs rainforest, volcanic highlands, savanna and Sahel-edge scrub into one country. The flowers follow the same pattern. Some grow nowhere else, some…
TLDR Douglas squirrels (chickarees) eat mostly conifer seeds, which they harvest by cutting green cones off the tree. The rest of the diet is fungi, especially truffles and mushrooms, plus…
Drive south from Saint-Louis and the vegetation tells you where you are before the road signs do. Thorny acacia and scrub give way to baobab country, then to oil palms…