Mammals > Marsupials
The Red-necked Wallaby (Notamacropus rufogriseus), widely celebrated across Australia and Tasmania as Bennett’s Wallaby, is one of the most familiar, handsome, and adaptable medium-sized macropods of eastern Australia. Easily recognized by the bright, rusty-red...
Fungi > Agaricales
The Brown Beech Mushroom (Hypsizygus tessellatus), celebrated across global gastronomy and Japanese cuisine as ‘Buna-shimeji’, is one of the most beloved, delicious, and commercially significant edible mushrooms on Earth. Growing in dense, bouquet-like...
Plants > Gentianales
Frangipani (Plumeria rubra), celebrated globally as the Temple Tree, Red Paucipan, or simply Plumeria, is one of the most intoxicatingly fragrant, culturally revered, and iconic tropical flowering trees in the world. Native to the warm, dry forests of Mesoamerica, it...
Plants > Caryophyllales
Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea spectabilis), universally celebrated across the globe as the ‘Paper Flower’ or ‘Trinitaria’, is one of the most radiant, dramatic, and iconic flowering woody vines in the plant kingdom. Named in honor of French...
Invertebrates > Mollusks
The Spanish Shawl (Flabellina iodinea, also recognized as Coryphella iodinea), is universally celebrated among marine biologists, underwater photographers, and coastal divers as one of the most vividly, incandescently colored marine animals on Earth. Inhabiting the...
