When Plants Cry
It's not dew. These droplets are a plant's internal fluids—or "guttation," as scientists call it.
Tag: botany
Bay Nature’s Hall of Botanical Horrors
For those who dare—meet the Bay Area’s spookiest plants (and two freaky fungi).
These Fabulous Flowers Are Spring’s Final Encore
When other plants start hunkering down, clarkias send up a dazzling array of purples and pinks.
Meet A West Oakland YouTube Celebrity Who Brings Plants and People Together
Santore is known for Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t, a self-described lowbrow approach to plant ecology.
Learning to Love Dandelions
It's the epitome of the unwanted weed -- but there are reasons to choose to want dandelions.
The Generosity of Trees
I find myself awakening to the wonder of time -- the deep, slow, earth-time of trees, and dirt, and rocks -- and to the aching grief of human greed and...
Listen Closely, the Trees are Talking
When people say that trees "talk" to each other, that's a concept that rests, in part, on an extraordinary and microscopic relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the roots of...
Meet the Rare Dawn Redwood at a Bay Area Park
Rare and once thought extinct, the dawn redwood is an ancient relative of the more familiar coast redwood.
San Bruno Mountain: An Ark of Diversity
The plants that grow on this 2,400-acre island amid a sea of city—including these four endemic manzanita species—help make San Bruno Mountain a world biological hotspot.
Tending the Wild at Skyline Gardens
Skyline Gardens, an incredible hotspot for California native plants with sweeping views, doesn't look like a garden. But it is.
