Congaree National Park has 21 snake species, and only three of them are venomous: the timber rattlesnake, the copperhead and the cottonmouth. Bites are rare. Snakes here want nothing to…
TLDR England has roughly 35 to 40 native tree species, depending on how you count. The ones you’ll meet most often are English oak, ash, beech, silver birch, hazel, rowan…
TLDR Contents Poisonous vs venomous: the difference Poisonous animals are toxic to touch or eat. The toxin sits in the skin or tissue, and you only get hurt if you…
Ukraine has roughly 4,600 native vascular plant species, and they don’t live in one place. The country runs from flat black-earth steppe in the south to wet pine forest in…
Temperate forests grow wild apples, pears, plums, cherries, persimmons, pawpaws, hawthorn haws, elderberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, plus nuts like acorns, chestnuts and hazelnuts. Most ripen between late summer and…
Syria is not the all-desert country most people picture. The trees of Syria grow in four fairly distinct belts: pine, fir and cedar forest on the western mountains, oak woodland…
TLDR Contents Why invasive species in Vermont are a bigger problem than they look An invasive species isn’t just a non-native one. Plenty of non-native plants sit quietly in gardens…
Table of contents The plants of the Netherlands are shaped by one fact: almost nothing here is far from water, and a large part of the country was water not…
Cyprus has roughly 1,650 native plant species and subspecies, and about 142 of them grow nowhere else on Earth. That’s a lot of endemism for an island of 9,251 square…