Canada’s native plants number somewhere between 3,300 and 5,300 species, depending on who is counting and what they count. Nobody needs all of them. What you need is the dozen…
Contents The apple came first Ask what the fruits of Wales are and the honest answer starts with one tree. Apples have grown here for roughly a thousand years, and…
Contents Ask what the main invasive species in Somalia is and the documented answer is a thorny tree with feathery leaves: Prosopis juliflora, called Ali-Garoob in Somali. Almost everything else…
Quick Answer Table of Contents The trees of the Dominican Republic cover more ground than the country’s size suggests. Lake Enriquillo sits below sea level and is ringed by thorny…
Contents Colombia packs more plant life into its borders than almost any country on Earth, and it does it in a space smaller than Texas and California combined. Three branches…
Read this first. Never eat a wild mushroom you haven’t identified with certainty. A photo match isn’t certainty. Have every first-time find checked by an experienced local forager or your…
Contents The national flower of Tonga is the heilala, and it is a tree flower, not a garden showpiece. It belongs to Garcinia sessilis, a relative of the mangosteen, and…
Vascular plants have xylem and phloem, internal tubes that move water and sugar around the plant. Non-vascular plants don’t, so they stay small and live where water is always close….
Walk into any Florida swamp and the first tree you notice is almost always a cypress. It’s also the one most visitors assume is the only tree there. It isn’t….