International Aroid Society Slideshow - Miami, Florida 2019
An annotated version of PowerPoint presentation given at the International Aroid Society on September 21, 2019 in Miami, Florida.
Scarlet (or not) Sophronitis: The Return of the Red Hots
Scarlet (or not) Sophronitis: The Return of the Red hots
Bonsai Ant Plants?
アリ植物盆栽?Are bonsai pots suitable footwear for rare “fat plants” or are these just more crazy Gaijins in kimonos?
They're the Pits
Long considered the red-headed stepchildren of mainstream bromeliads, some very beautiful and collectible pitcairnias live out where the wild things are.
Arachnofeel...YAAGGHH!!
Images, info and anecdotes from the field to get your spidey-senses tingling.
B&W Photography as Botanical Illustration
A different perspective on the art of 21st century botanical illustration
The Definitive Guide to Velvet Leaf Anthuriums in Nature & Cultivation
A Tour of the Velvet Underground.
Pinguicula mesophytica - Purple Rainforest
A rare, epiphytic carnivorous plant with dayglow magenta flowers that is easy to grow. Need I say more?
Central American and Panamanian Cycads in Field and Greenhouse
Cycads are a very old and varied gymnosperm division that are quite popular with tropical gardeners and collectors of offbeat plants.
The White-striped Agaves: A Gallery of Desert Dazzle
Pinstripes, zigzags and bad hair days in magueys.
Snake Dancing in the Western Guatemalan Highlands
An overview of snake handling by the K’iche’ in the Guatemalan Altiplano
Lycaste virginalis - from wet nurse to white nun
The history (natural and otherwise) of one of the greatest of all orchids.
Middle American Epiphytic Cacti Part I: Disocactus and related
Disocacti and their Kissin’ Cousins
Some Parrot Feather Foliage as an Aperitif
Les Apéritifs: Dalbergarias and pentadenias with stained glass leaves
Neotropical Blueberries in nature and cultivation
Crazyflowers and Superfruits; meet the NBs
The Passionflorist
A profile on Colombia’s passion flower champion, Gustavo Morales and his plants
The Secret Lives of Mesoamerican Slipper Orchids
Three yellow-flowered cypripediums, Phragmipedium humboldtii, P. longifolium, and Mexipedium xerophyticum
Nepenthes veitchii
One of the grandest Pitcher-plants in cultivation…a remarkable peristome…resembling both in structure and appearance the gills of a fish.