Rufino Osorio

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

The last stop of our short field trip was the Navy Wells Pineland Preserve near Homestead, Florida, a little ways south of the Robert is Her...

This is the third part of a four-part series of blog posts on a short botanical field trip to south Florida. Our second stop of the field t...

This is the second part of a four-part series of blog posts on a short botanical field trip to south Florida. Our first stop of the field t...

On Saturday, August 24, 2013, Michael Manna and I took a short, one-day botanical field trip to Miami-Dade County. While Michael had breakfa...

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

I had always assumed that honey was made only from the nectar of flowers; however, I recently learned about pine honey while surfing the int...

Euphorbia thymifolia (synonym: Chamaesyce thymifolia ) is an unassuming little annual native from Mexico to Argentina, the West Indies, an...

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

A miscellany of photographs taken at Mounts Botanical Garden this year. Adenium obesum setting seed pods. Aechmea 'Big Harv...