Papilio rutulus
Tag: plants
Malosma laurina
Strelitzia reginae
At the ruins of the Roberts Ranch House in Solstice Canyon (destroyed by fire in 1982), native and non-native plants vie for sunlight. Bird of paradise, ginger, bananas and limes grow under and between oaks, sycamores, and toyon.
thai basil
stipule-ation
Cereus sp.
Dicranum fuscenscens
The temperate rainforest of Olympic National Park is extremely rich in bryophyte species. I was happy to find one ‘sporing’, because it’s a bit late in the year for most of them to be reproducing.
sharp bits
So it turns out that rose thorns are actually prickles.
phyllotaxy
Sambucus mexicana
I thought I was familiar with elderberry’s thin, soft leaves, so it was a real surprise to feel the thick, leathery leaves on this shrub. I don’t know if this is an outlier, or I have simply been unobservant till now. More data needed.
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