Author: qdsa

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and…

Its white flowers signalled it to mankind. We, the humans, share the stereotypical view of flowers as colored. Actually, white flowers are not an impediment…

I pen this piece as a challenge : what can be written about roses that has not been already written and overwritten? Being a chemist…

supplement on this earlier article I will explore here, at least superficially, the connection between botany and French chauvinism, what we, the French, name derogatively « esprit…

Those are impressive trees. In height, they reach 15-20 m (50-60 ft). In output, a tree can produce up to 500 mangoes. The simple leaves…

To many, the quince is less familiar than apples, pears, oranges or bananas. They are bright golden-yellow, large in size, hard inside since not very…

This is a complement to an earlier text of mine on the same topic. We live in a small village in Southwestern France. Rue des…

Its name is interesting in other languages too. In French, muguet originated from the smell being reminiscent of musk. In German, maiglökchen, literally, May small…

This is a tree, both normal and abnormal. Normal: medium-sized and unsurprising in aspect. Abnormal: very ancient, going back to the Tertiary; and long-lived, often…

It is a tree, that reaches a height of usually 15-20 m (50-65 ft). The trunk itself is slender, its diameter at chest-height about 30…