Flora and Fauna - Plants and Critters

I picked this Lily up at a flower store. Unfortunately they did not have any indication as to the name, binomial let alone vernacular. I ass...

African violets, Saintpaulia were perhaps the first plants that I was fascinated with. There is this picture of me at around four or five h...

I did a post on the genus Celosia last year but found some more species and thought it might be a good idea to do a follow up post on these...

Ipomoea quamoclit , Cypress Vine - Alafua, Samoa, 2013 Back in 2012 I found a strange if exquisitely beautiful plant growing in a r...