2021.11.02.01 Ruttya fruticosa at The Huntington. “Many curious plants make their way into the Huntington Gardens via the nursery. Here we find an Acanth, Ruttya fruticosa, from North Africa” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BcqaY/
2021.11.02.02 Senecio articulatus in The Huntington Nursery “John Trager shows us this Senecio articulatus, a daisy family member, and one of many Senecios valued for both landscape use and pot culture.” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BEHo2/
2021.11.04.01 Convolvulus. “Convolvulus and Ipomoea can be so very similar, but are usually distinguished by stigma structure – filiform in Convolvulus and capitate in Ipomoea” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BXf8u/
2021.11.07.01 Botany of Vegetables, Roots, Stems, & Leaves. “Getting ready to teach my class on Botany for Gardeners” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2B7VLK/
2021.11.08.01 Botany of Vegetables, Stems & Shoots Pt. 1. “More Botany for Gardeners – this being Part 1 on Stems and Shoots” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2B7yFK/
2021.11.08.02 Botany of Vegetables, Stems & Shoots Pt. 2 “Stems and Shoots, Part 2, as promised”. https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BtvF1/
2021.11.09.01 Screw Pine, at the Malecón in Pto Vallarta “Pandanus, a genus of several hundred “Screw Pine” species (mostly Malaysian, Madagascan, & Polynesian) will be seen in lowland tropical landscapes” . https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BgKKA/
2021.11.09.02 Monocots. “Leaves of monocots (palms, orchids, agaves, grains, & lilies) form completely surrounding the stem growing tip, making bulbs possible.“ https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BECn6/
2021.11.10.01 Chayote. “Cultivated around the world today. Chayote is a curiously single-seeded Cucurbit native to Mexico and Central America.” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2Bpwjn/
2021.11.10.02 Corn. “A Corn ear (mazorca) is an infructescence of around 500 kernels, each of which is a 1-seeded fruit.” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BsyTB/
2021.11.10.03 Cucumber. “Cucumbers are important worldwide. For more info, check out my blog: https://botanyincontext.com/2020/06/07/inferiority-is-complex/“ https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2Bbvuf/
2021.11.10.04 Onions.”Onions are structural miracles! Each scale leaf continues to gain girth as succeeding leaves form inside – like Vegetable Russian Dolls.” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BpGu9/
2021.11.10.05 Pineapple. “For reliably-delicious fresh pineapple, you have to visit the tropics. https://botanyincontext.com/2019/07/15/the-pinnacle-of-hospitality/
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2021.11.10.06 Plantains. “Remember that all of these different banana cultivars are sterile. Fertile bananas have large seed that would be unwelcome to most consumers.” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BtDMP/
2021.11.10.07 Poinsettia design. “Poinsettias make great stylized icons – with colorful bracts (leaves) surrounding the curious cyathia – interpreted in textiles as yellow dots” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2Bvkkm/
2021.11.10.08 Calabaza de arbor. “Squashes, Gourds, and Pumpkins are all termed “Calabazas” in Spanish. Any idea why they call this very-zuccini-looking squash Calabaza de Arbol (which I thought is Crescentia)?” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BcHud/
2021.11.10.09 Fabric. “In textiles, ‘florals’ means more than leaves and flowers, but Mazatlán’s San Francisco Quilt shop has lots of plant motifs” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2B4kjT/
2021.11.10.10 Fabric. Yet more nifty plant-themed printed fabrics at the quilt shop in Mazatlán…” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BX2HC/
2021.11.10.11 Linda. “Meet Linda Hannawalt, the owner and driving force behind Mazatlán’s San Francisco Quilt store, where floral motif fabrics abound.” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BXEat/
2021.11.12.01 Tale of the Bean. “Tale of the Bean encourages young people (3rd & 4th graders) to investigate plant life through the simple act of planting a seed. Comment for a copy” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BgvAh/
2021.11.13.01 Brachychiton. “Back in California at The Huntington, admiring a “full-blown” specimen of Australia’s Bottle Tree, Brachychiton rupestris” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BQ7qA/
2021.11.13.02 Tagetes. “Tagetes lemmonii reminds us of John Lemmon (note it’s not lemon). His spouse Sara is recognized by Tucson’s Mt. Lemmon. The couple were SW botanists” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2Bxtck/
2021.11.13.03 Tabebuia. “The Bignoniaceous Tabebuia (Handroanthus) chrysotricha makes a spectacle in the SoCal landscape, with flushes of flowering” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2B75em/
2021.11.13.04 Camellia. “Fall is blooming season for the Sasanquas (Camellia sasanqua) in SoCal. They bring fine texture and elegance to the landscape” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BWN9c/
2021.11.13.05 Cacao. “Chocolate is ground from semi-fermented and roasted seed of Central America’s Theobroma cacao – a shrubby understory lowland tropical tree” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BWJU8/
2021.11.15.01 Distictis “Distictis ‘Rivers’ is said to be a selection from the hybrid cross of Distictis buccinatoria and D. laxiflora. (now classified as Amphilophium.)” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BvPX8/
2021.11.15.02 Solanum “Easy to pick out a Solanum from the flower form. This shrub, Solanum hindsianum (from NW Mexico), produces particularly large flowers” . https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BWumk/
2021.11.15.03 Thevitia. “Along with Nerium, Plumeria, Adenium, Allamanda, & Mandevilla, Thevitia (Cascabela) is one of many Apocynaceous plants with showy, tubular corollas” This is a group of mostly very toxic plants. https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BvcGE/
2021.11.17.01 Magnolia. “Rare in cultivation, this variety of Magnolia pacifica holds promise for SoCal gardens, having thrived under modest humidity and irrigation regimens” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BK6qs/
2021.11.19.01 Sassafras. “Though I think of Lauraceae as evergreen, Sassafras and Lindera remind me there are temperate representatives.” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2Bsv9R/
2021.11.19.02 Cotton near Colquitt, GA. “The beautiful white “lint” of cotton bolls is the ensnarled trichomes (plant hairs) protruding from the many seed coats in each capsule.” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BvuHD/
2021.11.19.03 Colquitt Silo “Take a pastoral trip down US 27 in SW Georgia and the Florida Panhandle – beautiful views of regional agriculture- plus the cool-ass silos in Colquitt” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BwteL/
2021.11.19.04 Colquitt Silo. “Colquitt, GA addendum: the cotton side of the silos…. Cotton, Peanuts, Soybeans, and Corn are important, but so are forestry and specialty crops” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BTmMQ/
2021.11.20.01 Ilex vomitoria. “Ilex vomitoria (Yaupon) is one of two native hollies that produce caffeine. Used historically for brewed teas, it doesn’t readily induce vomiting…” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2BcUo8/
2021.11.21.01 Monarchs on Solidago sempervirens var. mexicana. “Help me confirm or deny this ID: Solidago sempervirens var. mexicana – Seaside Goldenrod. Marauded by Monarchs” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjFAX6K/
2021.11.22.01 Selaginella at WalMart. “Despite being elevated to honorary status as a flowering plant in holiday sales displays, Seliginella is neither seed nor flower producing.” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjFLpcM/
2021.11.26.01 Celery. “Get your Celery morphology and terminology under control. Each plant is a “stalk” – leaf bases (“ribs”) attached to a short stem that you discard” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjFhaup/
2021.11.26.02 Baccharis. “Baccharis halimifolia, a dioecious shrub in the Asteraceae, showing fruiting of the female plants.” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjFY122/
2021.11.26.03 Conradina canescens. Endemic to the FL Panhandle, this frail-seeming mint (Conradina canescens) is ever-present in St George Island pine woodlands” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjFjH6C/
2021.11.26.03 Marshes and Slash Pine. “ https://Slash Pine, bordering salt marsh on the bay side of St George Island. A large colony of pines was killed by saltwater from Hurricane Michael (2018)” vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjFUJ7s/
2021.11.27.01 Perry FL at Forest Capital Museum, Turpentine. “Rosin collection – signage explains recent methods cutting into the cambium, but not the xylem, applying Sulfuric Acid to keep the flow going with fewer cuts” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjF6jmw/
2021.11.27.02 Basic tree anatomy. “A diagram (Forest Capital Museum in Perry, FL) showing the basic structure of a tree – the cambium generating exterior phloem and inner xylem” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjFSPox/
2021.11.27.03 Pine seed germination.”Depictions of the reproductive life cycle of a pine tree. Each seedling has a whorl of numerous seed leaves.” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjFhmeM/
2021.11.27.04 Florida map with wood representations of counties. “A cool wooden Florida map, with each county shaped of wood from a characteristic native tree. Forest Capital Museum” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjFFJ7V/
2021.11.27.05 Tree products.”Gifts from woody plants span the needs and millennia of human cultures. From shelter and sustenance to finished and raw materials, trees support life” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjNohVt/
2021.11.27.06 Longleaf Pine. “Originally occupying nearly 100 million acres in the SE USA, harvest and clearing have reduced coverage to 5% of that footprint.” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjFScxp/
2021.11.27.07 Gainesville’s Thomas Center. “Evidenced at The Thomas Center, Gainesville, FL, has a lovely legacy of spreading Live Oaks – evergreen trees that create a beautiful surround” https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjFrdNs/