I just returned from three weeks of botanical surveying in the forests of Costa Rica. I’ll write more about the trip – and what we found – in my next post, but for now I just want to share this lovely image. The plant you’re looking at was described to me as ‘una hoja plastica’,…
Month: January 2011
I went hiking in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson this weekend. It was a rare day, windy and snowing at some of the higher elevations – the first snow I’ve seen all this year. The cacti did not look particularly happy. In fact, the higher up the mountains, the fewer cacti there are…