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 think I should have called this show, “infundibula, blah, blah, blah”, and though I love to poke fun at the terms, the truth...
Hummingbird trumpet has had quite a few botanical names and I’m still not sure that I got the current botanical right in this episode....
There are around 150 species of Rhus (sumacs) found around the world in temperate regions. They are found in both North and South America...
