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...
Plants > Malpighiales
The Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata), widely cherished across the American South as the Wild Passion Vine or ‘Maypop’, is one of the most intricately designed, exotic, and historically celebrated native wildflowers in North America. Blooming...
Plants > Conifers
The Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pine (Pinus aristata), celebrated across the high peaks of the American West as the Colorado Bristlecone Pine, is a legendary, ancient sentinel of the subalpine zone. Defying hurricane-force blizzards, sub-zero freezes, and intense...
Plants > Malvales
Kokia cookei, known in Hawaiian as ‘Cooke’s Kokiʻo’ or ‘Molokai Tree Cotton’, is universally recognized as one of the rarest and most miraculous plant species in botanical history. Once an integral component of the dry lowland forests of...
Plants > Caryophyllales
Kaempfer’s Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes bokorensis) is an exotic, spectacular carnivorous pitcher plant native exclusively to the mist-shrouded sandstone plateau of Mount Bokor in southern Cambodia. Formally described by botanists in 2009, this resilient tropical...
