plants
#ForewordFriday: Green and Growing Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On March 13th, 2015
Restoring the Monarchy to Cabin John
By Eric Dinerstein / On October 20th, 2014
#ForewordFriday: Why Restore?
By Meghan Bartels / On October 10th, 2014
The Wilderness Act at 50: Adapt, Move, or Die
By Joyce Maschinski, Kristin E. Haskins, Joyce Maschinski & Kristin Haskins / On September 2nd, 2014
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Patio Season Starts Earlier in My Yard
By Robert Brown / On April 21st, 2014
The Corpse Flower and the Honeysuckle
By Eric Dinerstein / On July 23rd, 2013
Considering the lines stretching around the block ten years ago to witness one of nature’s masterpieces, you might want to arrive early when the National Botanic Garden opens its doors. Trained botanists, tropical ecologists, and naturalists must queue patiently alongside curious visitors from Toledo. All eagerly await a chance to pay homage to the world’s largest flowering plant, the titan arum, now opening (literally) at the Garden. This floral extravaganza will likely run a few more days before Amorphophallus titanum returns to normal life and goes out of bloom.
Conservation Efforts for the Rare Lakela’s Mint, Dicerandra immaculata
By Cheryl L. Peterson / On June 4th, 2012
This unique member of the mint family (Lamiaceae) is found only in Indian River and St. Lucie County. It is a short-lived perennial with showy pink flowers that bloom in the fall that are pollinated by bees. Lakela’s Mint is one of six species of Dicerandra, each of which are endemic to only Florida and have their own unique minty aroma arising from a particular mixture of essential oils that are produced in glandular capsules on their leaf surfaces.
Bird Survey Suggests If You Plant It, They Will Come
By Robert J. Cabin / On April 15th, 2011
The results of last month's annual Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge Bird Survey indicate that birds may colonize reforested areas much faster than experts had predicted. This year's surveyors spotted all five of the common native forest birds and four endangered forest birds within sections of the refuge that two short decades ago had been treeless areas dominated by non-native plants and animals. "I never thought I'd live to see this," said Jack Jeffrey, who coordinated this bird survey and was the refuge biologist from 1990-2008.
So What's Wrong with a Little Global Warming
By Anthony Barnosky / On March 25th, 2009
Be afraid (but don't panic).