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 …
Native plant species on highway rights-of-way are sometimes planted as monocultures. As an example, here are hundreds of plants of the same species, Quadrella cynophallophora, Jamaica caper. Maintenance workers prune the plants, square as board. If you continue east a …
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 …