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…

Some of my experiences with what many might consider the creepiest of the crawlies.

Portraits of dancing egrets and feathered serpents

Spider-nest haworthias as pets.

Daguerreotype imaging in the 21st century

The UnSalad

Seed production in a popular Philodendron in cultivation.

Colombia’s floral megadiversity on display in modern architectural jewel cases.

Notes on Anthurium clidemioides, A. pacificum and A. flexile in nature and cultivation.

“And God said, let the waters swarm with living creatures…” Genesis 1:20 ¿Did we mention we like to fly fish for offbeat species?

A journey to Colombia’s “Great Plains”.

A look-see at uncommon tillandsias.

Of rare birds and men.

The first in a series highlighting the work of guest photographers: Colombian orchids by Fabian Alzate