Fungi > Polypores & Bracket Fungi
The Violet-toothed Polypore (Trichaptum biforme), also celebrated as the Purple Tooth Polypore, is a mesmerizing, jewel-toned bracket fungus widespread across temperate hardwood forests of North America. Renowned for its breathtaking lilac to royal-purple growing...
Fungi > Agaricaceae & Agaricales
The Reddening Lepiota (Leucoagaricus americanus) is a robust, fascinating saprotrophic mushroom celebrated for its dramatic, chameleon-like bruising reactions. Native across temperate woodlands and common in landscaped urban mulch beds, this attractive gilled fungus...
Invertebrates > Hesperiids & Lepidoptera
The Glasswing Butterfly (Greta oto), known throughout its native Latin America as the espejitos (‘little mirrors’) and celebrated worldwide as an emblem of delicate natural grace, is an extraordinary, transparent-winged nymphalid butterfly belonging to the...
Invertebrates > Nymphalids & Lepidoptera
The Madagascan Sunset Moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus), universally acclaimed by naturalists and entomologists as one of the most breathtakingly radiant insects on Earth, is a day-flying uraniid moth belonging to the family Uraniidae within the order Lepidoptera. Endemic...
Plants > Fagaceae & Fagales
The White Oak (Quercus alba), revered as the undisputed patriarch of North America’s eastern deciduous hardwood forest and the state tree of three US states, is a monumental, long-lived broadleaf tree belonging to the beech and oak family Fagaceae within the...
