Lepanthes woodburyana from Puerto Rico high elevation. […]
CPC2023
CPC 2023 National Meeting Photo Contest
Eriocaulon koernickianum
Very small! […]
Ferocactus viridescens
Mission Trails, San Diego […]
Cylindropuntia californica var. californica
Cylindropuntia californica var. californica blooms in the SDZWA Native Plant Gene Bank shade house. […]
Botanizing in Action
Members of a multi-garden botanical expedition fascinated by Opuntia martiniana near Prescott, AZ […]
Torrey pine seedling
Pinus torreyana grown from seed by the SDZWA Native Plant Gene Bank […]
Hot spring endemic purple paintbrush from Nevada
Castilleja salsuginosa […]
Loulu kaalae palm
Pritchardia kaalae in habitat […]
Hawaiian fern unfurling
Dicranopteris linearis at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park […]
Banksia prionotes flower
Banksia prionotes flower with macro lens […]
Anza Borrego
Superbloom at Anza Borrego Desert. Photo was taken at June Wash while surveying Petalonyx linearis for CAPR seed collection. […]
Wild Arctostaphylos glandulosa ssp. crassifolia stem sections regrowing from buds on tissue culture medium
The Del Mar manzanita (Arctostaphylos glandulosa ssp. crassifolia) does not have seeds that readily germinate, but they make up for it with buds that quickly resprout in tissue culture. Often, multiple buds burst on a single stem segment explant (pictured here), allowing whole culture lines to flourish in considerably less time than through germinating seeds […]
Lilium humboldtii
Lilium humboldtii (Humboldt lily) growing in a canyon in the Otay Mountain Wilderness in San Diego County […]
Harrisia fragrans on a summer night
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden maintains an ex situ collection of the globally critically imperiled Harrisia fragrans (fragrant prickly-apple cactus) from across its range on Florida’s east coast. The first flowers on our Ft. Pierce population opened after dark last summer in 2022. […]
Harrisia fragrans in flower at the midnight hour
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden maintains an ex situ collection of the globally critically imperiled Harrisia fragrans (fragrant prickly-apple cactus) from across its range on Florida’s east coast. The first flowers on our Ft. Pierce population opened after dark last summer in 2022. […]
Lilium pyrophilum
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Ready yet?
Sarracenia purpurea var. montana seeds ready to collect. […]
Prehistoric seed collectors?
NCBG Technicians Madison Ohmen and Aria Searles collecting Oxypolis canbyi seed in a Taxodium dominated Carolina Bay. […]