Theobrominated

A herbarium is one of the main tools for research and documentation of plant biodiversity.  It sounds like a garden, and in fact an old nam...

I love it when the spring winds die away and the warm days of summer arrive.  But I hate it too, because when Dactylis glomerata flowers, m...

A few weeks ago, I blogged about the plants we saw on a short walk along the coast south of Makara.  This week, I had the opportunity, cour...

Every plant family name is typified by a genus, which means the name of the family is based on the name of a genus.   For instance, the name...

In Birdwood Reserve, near where I live, there’s been an epidemic of some sort affecting kawakawa, Piper excelsum .   Large plants lose...

Reseda alba , Karori, Wellington, New Zealand Resedaceae is a small family in the glucosinolate-producing Order Brassicales.   R...

We took a great little walk today from Makara towards Opau Bay, along a section of Wellington coast.  The walk itself is described here , bu...