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Electric Calliandra
Calliandra is a beautiful plant name. I like the way a genus name can sometimes become the common name as well. I wonder how...
Salvia lemmonii
Hmm, I’m not doing a very good job of keeping up with botanical names. Either that or I’m making them up as I go....
Mearns Sumac
I like the name sumac and I’ve known it since I was a kid in Kentucky. The most talked about sumac of my youth...
Marah gilensis
A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at...
Borderland Pollinator Plants
Chuparosa is one my of favorite plants from back when we used to live outside of Tucson. I bet we had 5 or 6...
Ancient Plants and Ancient Water
At one point when I was reading about the age of water I came across some research indicating that some of the water molecules...