Petey has wild dreams if he stays in bed too long in the morning. Get up Petey!
Amoreuxia palmatifida is always a delightful botanical find. Look for it on rocky slopes between 3,500′ and 5,000′ in southeastern Arizona. The bloom period coincides with summer monsoon and the orange flowers are best seen in the morning unless it is a cloudy day when flowers stay open a little longer. The seed capsules are beautiful. Even Kearney and Peebles of Arizona Flora seem to wax poetic when they mention, “the hyaline endocarp, through which the seeds may be seen as through a window after the exocarp falls away.” Beautiful.
I’ve written a lot of episodes about sycamore trees over the years. Below are some of the things I wrote for those episodes. “I...
Chuparosa is one my of favorite plants from back when we used to live outside of Tucson. I bet we had 5 or 6...
photo credits: Marian and Bridgitte
