Rufino Osorio

A clump of Zephyranthes atamasca, the atamasco-lily, blooming in my yard in March. It is one of the oldest plants in my collection having...

A beautifully grown flowering plant of Flaveria linearis photographed in the native plant garden of Ryan Leavengood, a member of the Palm...

Manihot esculenta  'Variegata' photographaed at the vegetable garden of Mounts Botanical Garden, where it was being grown as an or...

Pentas lanceolata 'Gloria's Heirloom Pink' Pentas lanceolata is an evergreen perennial or subshrub native to Africa and Ye...

A large, robust plant of Cyperus croceus  growing in a patch of pineland heliotrope ( Heliotropium polyphyllum ) in my front yard. Cyper...

A Virginia creeper, Parthenocissus quinquefolia , has ripened its fruit in early spring. The combination of red stalks and dark purple frui...

Early last year, I collected a few seeds from a pokeweed, Phytolacca americana, that had spontaneously arisen among some saw palmetto palm...

Wild columbine is a common wildflower throughout the eastern and central portions of Canada and the United States. In eastern North Amer...

Cyperus odoratus. Flat sedges, members of the genus Cyperus, are rarely grown even though 35 native species occur in Florida, along w...

Corchorus siliquosus bears an elongated capsule with four toothlike appendages at its apex (note the unripe capsule in the lower left sid...

This exceptionally deep violet-purple form of the Georgia aster is the cultivar 'N3 Purple Haze'. Georgia aster ( Symphyotrichum...

The image above shows my preferred technique for propagating plants from cuttings. I use small plastic cups that are 2 inches (5 centime...

Symphyotrichum oblongifolium 'Raydon's Favorite' is a big bang bloomer that covers itself in flowers in the autumn. Every y...

Hibiscus furcellatus is a large, coarse, shrubby perennial or shrub that bears ornamental, large, dark pink flowers pollinated by hummingb...

Hibiscus dasycalyx , the Neches River hibiscus, is an endangered hibiscus that naturally occurs in the floodplains of the Angelina, Neches,...

Hibiscus aculeatus is a perennial hibiscus native to the southeastern United States coastal plain in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georg...

Day-lily flowers are usually bright and showy, but they last but a single day. On Saturday, May 26, 2012, I stopped briefly at the gar...

Opuntia humifusa, the most common prickly-pear in Florida as well as in eastern North America. These prickly-pear fruits added an unexp...

Mentzelia floridana photographed at the Juno Dunes Natural Area in Palm Beach County. Poorman's patch, Mentzelia floridana, is a w...

  Michael Compagno, an attorney at the South Florida Water Management District, took this striking photograph of the pink lady's...