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…
South Africa holds more than 22,000 indigenous plant species, roughly 10% of all the plants on Earth, on a patch of land under 1% of the planet’s surface. Most of…
New Zealand has roughly 2,400 native vascular plants, and about 80 percent of them grow nowhere else on Earth. That figure is the short answer to what makes the flora…
TLDR The most common killer of “unkillable” plants isn’t neglect. It’s too much water. Table of Contents What “resilient” actually means Most lists of the most resilient plants use the…
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…