This tree — the Joshua tree, to use its common name — has the Mojave desert — in the states of Arizona, Utah, California, Nevada—…
A scientist and a writer
A scientist and a writer
This tree — the Joshua tree, to use its common name — has the Mojave desert — in the states of Arizona, Utah, California, Nevada—…
This species is native to high forest areas of western Asia from Iran to the Balkans. From there, domestication brought it to Western Europe. Chestnut…
There are about nearly 500 Hypericum species, distributed across every continent except Antarctica. Although the Mediterranean basin is a hot spot for Hypericum, Asian and…
Triticum dicoccum/dicoccoides (Cyperaceae) : plant domestication Triticum, from the family of cereals, is arguably the oldest wheat species to have been domesticated by mankind. The…
A deciduous, thicket-forming, multi-trunked, suckering shrub, it can reach a height of 4-6 m (12-20’). This hardy shrub is native to Europe, western Asia and…
Everyone, inclusive of Oberon in A Midsummer’s Night Dream (‟I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,‟) is familiar with this small shrub of…
‟Vêtu de probité candide et de lin blanc:‟ this line by Victor Hugo — that translates literally as ‟clothed in candid probity and in white…
For centuries, if not millennia, willows have assisted mankind: it will suffice to mention baskets, on one hand, aspirin on the other — the drug…
A birch forest makes an impression, of a pristine, primeval scene. The slender white trunks, vertical of course, let the eye roam deeply through them.…
For centuries, this long-lived tree, with a lifespan measured in centuries, was nested against cemeteries, in Christian countries. A tradition that people heeded, the succession…