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…
Table of Contents Austria packs about 3,000 wild vascular plant species into a country smaller than South Carolina. The reason is vertical. The land climbs from roughly 115 meters at…
Green fruits fall into two camps, and most lists blur them together. Some are green because they’re ripe: kiwi, green grapes, feijoa, Granny Smith apples. Others are green because they’re…
TLDR El Salvador’s national tree is the maquilishuat, which blooms pink from roughly February to April. The national flower is the izote, though its native status and official date are…
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…
African savanna flora is built around one odd arrangement: a continuous layer of grass with scattered trees standing in it. Rain falls in one season, fire sweeps through in another,…
Cuba’s national flower is the mariposa, a white, jasmine-scented ginger lily that spent the independence wars hidden in women’s hair. It’s the natural starting point for the flowers of Cuba,…
Scotland has roughly 1,600 vascular plants, around 1,000 bryophytes (mosses and liverworts) and about 1,500 lichens. That’s a lot of plant life for a country of cold winters and thin…
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…