The glossary in the back of a flora is full of wonderful words that you may never had heard or seen before, especially if you’re not a botanist. I tend to wander up and down a page perusing other words and descriptions after I’ve found the explanation I was looking for. Sad, but true. Oh, and I can now say loculicidal rapidly 3 times in a row!
The photos are mine. I love the seed capsules with the oak stump behind. You can see the leaves aren’t really triangles, but hastate. Uh-oh, open up the glossary.
The photo taken on the flora page illustrates how the top of the seed capsule weakens and opens displaying the small black seed.
Eumorpha typhon or the Typhon sphinx moth is out and about from June to August in the borderlands. I realized very quickly that we...
I suppose what I’m getting at in this episode is that monarch butterflies sure get a lot of publicity because milkweeds are host plants...
Petey talks about cactus wrens and his poor hearing too. Hmm, we better listen.
