TLDR Contents Huge means four different things Ask “what’s the biggest tree in the world” and you’ll get three or four different answers, all correct. A tree can win on…
Equatorial Guinea has almost no readable flower guides. What exists is mostly plant databases and multi-volume botanical floras. This is the plain-language version: twelve flowers you can actually picture, what…
Tropical rainforest trees are defined by four things: height, buttress roots, drip-tip leaves, and a level of diversity that has no match anywhere else. A single hectare of Amazon forest…
Quick answer: what is the national flower of Sri Lanka? The national flower of Sri Lanka is the blue water lily, called nil manel in Sinhala, declared in 1986. Botanists…
Nauru’s best-known flowers are frangipani (Plumeria), tibouk (Calophyllum inophyllum), Sida fallax, the perfume flower tree (Fagraea berteroana) and Ochrosia elliptica. Most of them grow in the narrow coastal belt that…
Congaree National Park protects the largest old-growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the United States, roughly 11,000 acres of it. It holds more than 25 champion trees and the tallest…
Morocco has roughly 7,000 plant species, and more than 900 of them grow nowhere else on Earth. That’s a lot of botany for a country you can cross in a…
Black berries are blackberries: the dark, glossy fruit of bramble bushes in the rose family. “Black berries” is just the two-word spelling, and it means the same fruit. Botanically they…
Indonesia has somewhere between 24,000 and 30,000 species of vascular plants, and roughly 3,800 of them are orchids. That’s more plant diversity packed into a chain of 17,000-odd islands than…