Cranberry Bog

Cranberries are a very strange fruit. They like to grow in long trailing vines in bog beds made up of sand, acidic peat moss, gravel…

The Great Sargasso Sea

The Sargasso Sea is located in a gyre, or a system of rotating currents, in the middle of the north Atlantic Ocean. The…

Me? Invasive?

Box elder trees are native to North America, but are considered invasive in some parts of the continent. They’re so good at invading…

Cork: A Renewable Resource

You can thank Quercus suber for the cork in your wine bottle or the cork board on your dorm room wall. The cork…

Fiddlesticks

Ferns belong to a group of more than 12,000 species of plants, a group called the Monilophytes. These plants are have vascular tissue…

More Dead Plants

We’ve established that having a running record of plant history is important and that digitizing that record is also important…

Bristlecone Pines

What are these miraculous structures? Could they be trees? They’re probably trees.

Pleading with papayas

Hawaiian papaya farms took quite a hit in the 1990s. Their crops were plagued by papaya ringspot virus and there seemed…

Is Costa Rica as close as it gets to Half Earth?

Digitizing Our Curiosity

There aren’t a whole lot of people out there who could walk around and identify every plant they see to the species…