Plant Sightings

Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum) is distinctive with its leaf design, with white along the veins like a webbing, looking like […]

The Blackberry taxonomy is confused as there is much hybridization and apomixis, therefore it is referred to as a “species

Native to Europe and Asia, Burdock (Arctium lappa, A. spp.)  is a thistle that is considered both a useful plant

The Artichoke and Cardoon are types of thistles that are cultivated as food and medicine. A native to the Mediterranean

Guarana (Paullinia cupana) is a South American source of caffeine in the form of a vining plant with large leaves

The White Jelly Mushroom (aka. Snow Mushroom; Tremella fuciformis) is a gelatinous, translucent white fungus with a frond-like, lobed appearance

This almost 100 foot tall deciduous tree is a native to Asia, producing pinnate leaves and panicles of flowers in

Cinchona (Cinchona spp.) is a famous medicinal plant that saved many people from the fate of Malaria. All Cinchona species

Box Mistletoe (Amyema miquelii) is an epiphytic hemiparasitic flowering plant that is found attached to some species of Australia eucalypt,

With a flavor similar to stewed or dried apples, or kiwifruit (depending on who you talk to), these berries are