Pebble Plants

Lithops

• these little ground nubs grow all across Nambia, South Africa, Botswana, and perhaps also Angola

Darwin’s Orchids

This fascinating flower is perhaps the best example of an equally fascinating phenomenon called coevolution.

DRAGON BLOOD TREE

• it’s in all caps simply because it’s a cool name
• the scientific name for this plant is Dracaena…

Over the Moor

Moorland

• I suppose moors would be readily associated with the hound of the Baskervilles

Touchy Touchy

Plants can be just so sensitive

Plant Communication

• yes
• plants are blind and deaf and dumb
• and likely insentient

Battle of the Plants

• are plants merely passive beings?
• or are they dynamic organisms?

Spectacular Horns

• actually this plant’s scientific name is Zingiber spectabile
• but the species is derived from the…

Unafraid of the Dark

Shade Tolerance

• if you buy a plant from a nursery

Amazing Grazing

• one might think that animals continually munching on prairie grass would have some sort of negative effects on the plant diversity