Fast thinking (gestalt) and slow thinking (technical) recognition and determination of scientific names, binomials, of plant species.
Due to forbidding thorns, it’s hard to get close enough to see leaf details of the “bee wattle,” Vachellia sphaerocephala (Schltdl. & Cham.) Seigler & Ebinger, at University of Miami’s Gifford Arboretum. From a distance, the leaflets appear be burnt …
Two very different Ficus genotypes, ‘Green Island’ ficus and Indian laurel fig, are often identified as the same species, Ficus microcarpa. Because of uncertainty of their scientific names, I refer to them by cultivar name and common name, respectively. Both …