Goodding Willow

November 26, 2023 00:04:02
Goodding Willow
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Goodding Willow

Nov 26 2023 | 00:04:02

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Show Notes

Leslie Newton Goodding had a busy career. It was when he worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture that he collected the type specimen for the willow jabbered about in this episode. It was the American botanist Carleton Roy Ball, a Salix specialist (geek), who honored Goodding with the species name. One of the things that caught my attention when reading about Leslie Goodding was that at some point he taught High School in Bisbee, as well as Benson. I bet those teaching gigs supported his plant explorations around southern Arizona. There are a bunch of Salix species in…

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