The Magazine for Tropical Nature, Ornamental Horticulture & Photography

Microsorum spectrum - Triangular Functions

Eyelash Vipers & Dancing Ladies.

Lightning, Rain & Hurricane.

The Call of the Weird.

Hairy Plant Oddities Around the House.

Notes on New World Venomous Coralsnakes.

Northern elephant seals at Año Nuevo.

The Return of a Native.

A close look at Tabletop Aloes.

Giant Anthuriums at Home and Abroad.

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Cottonmouths and Canebrakes signal: Don’t Tread on Me.

So you fancy yourself a skilled grower? Please check your ego at the door.

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The Condor’s Lair.

Viewing tropical aroids in a different light.

With a southern crawl, y’all.

Understanding focal options in nature photography.

Sexy plants after dark.

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An alchemist’s guide to transforming crystal antimony into antimoney crystals.

Not your usual cases of Frog Bites Man.

Rainforest Treegoblins in captivity.

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Bill Lamar drops by his office in Colombia for a morning coffee and finds a ten-foot crocodile had the same idea.

A beautiful new aroid species and the nitty-gritty of tropical plant discovery and naming.

Missing Monkey Frogs and digital forensics.

Frogs Gone Wild. A gallery of Perú’s spectacular poison frog fauna.

Ornamental Plant Taxonomy & Breeding – An Illustrated Guide to the Terminology

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Rothschild’s Creation, Mistaken Identities and Spathe Oddities

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Birdwatching for rarities in the tropics usually requires some sacrifice. We may have found a better way…