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Letter from the Publisher
April 01, 2011 by David Loeb
Surprise (almost) manzanita blossoms halfway up a mountain in Borneo.
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Early Bloomers
January 01, 2011 by Sue Rosenthal
While transplanted New Englanders may complain about the Bay Area’s inconspicuous seasons, true Californians prefer February flowers to snow shovels. What we lack in extremes we make up in subtle and unexpected beauty. On your winter walks, keep an eye out for the early bloomers, plants that brave winter weather for an early shot at pollination.
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The Presidio’s Miracle Manzanita
April 01, 2010 by Sue Rosenthal
A construction site along one of San Francisco’s busiest thoroughfares hardly seems like a good spot to find one of our region’s rarest plants. But that’s just where a passing biologist saw a manzanita thought extinct for decades. And now a whole lot of people are trying to make sure this lone survivor isn’t the last Franciscan manzanita.
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Why is manzanita bark so smooth and red?
April 01, 2003 by Mike Vasey
What a seemingly simple, but deceptively complex question! Ultimately, perhaps, the least speculative—but not completely satisfactory—answer is that manzanitas inherited …
