Have you heard of “hyperaccumulators”? Hyperacculumators are plant species that have evolved the capacity to take up and accumulate large … More
Tag: conservation
The most painful plant in the world
If you are an outdoor person and you read this blog in Australia, it is not too unlikely that you … More
Fairy Elephant’s Feet
The Republic of South Africa is one of the most diverse countries worldwide, with more than 23,000 indigenous flowering plant … More
Deceptive flowers
In a previous blog contribution, I wrote about a South American Aristolochia (birthwort) plant. There are about 450 species in … More
Saint Helena olive
For this blog, I was looking for the most remote plant species I could find, and I ended up in … More
Battle of Leipzig
In this blog, I write about a small, inconspicuous annual herb in the amaranth family, Corispermum marschallii Steven, or Grey … More
Persian carpet flower
Imagine an English lady during Victorian times, growing up and living in the rolling hills of southern England. What do … More
The Ordeal bean
Do you remember my blog about the Little Apple of Death, Hippomane mancinella L., which some people call the most … More
Amborella trichopoda
I am always fascinated to see plant species which feature on postage stamps. A great example is a stamp, issued … More
Wilhelm’s lousewort
There are 600 or more species in the genus Pedicularis (lousewort, in the broomrape Orobanchaceae family), most of them are … More