Which Guinea? A Quick Clarification Three countries carry the name: Guinea (capital Conakry), Guinea-Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea. There’s also the Guinea forest region, a belt of rainforest stretching along West…
The Flowers of Saint Kitts and Nevis: A Field Guide
TLDR: The national flower of St. Kitts and Nevis is the Poinciana, also called the Flamboyant tree, and it’s near-impossible to miss between May and August when it lights up…
Tonga’s Native Plants: A Field Guide to Rare Flora
Table of Contents Most “plants of Tonga” pages give you a Latin species list or a single photo of a hibiscus and call it a day. Neither tells you much….
Plants of the United States, Region by Region
TLDR The United States is home to roughly 17,000 native plant species, and no single list does that variety justice — a saguaro that takes a decade to grow one…
16 Native Trees of Armenia, From Oak to Apricot
Armenia is a small, landlocked country that somehow contains almost every forest type in the temperate world. The lowest point, the Debed Gorge in the north, sits at 375 meters….
20 Unique Flowers That Look Almost Fake
Most “unique flowers” roundups show you a photo, a common name, and maybe a scientific name in italics, then move on. That’s fine if you just want to gawk. It’s…
14 Plants of Madagascar Found Nowhere Else on Earth
Madagascar split from mainland Africa roughly 160 million years ago and from India about 90 million years ago, and it’s been evolving in isolation ever since. The result: somewhere between…
The Native Plants of Tuvalu (Almost None Are Endemic)
Table of Contents TLDR Tuvalu has no endemic plants — none that evolved there and exist nowhere else. Of the 362 vascular plant species ever recorded on the nine islands,…
Ivory Coast’s Native Plants: A Field Guide by Region
Most write-ups on Ivory Coast’s native plants are taxonomy lists — a Wikipedia category page, a paragraph buried inside a wildlife article, a dry entry in a country encyclopedia. None…