Plants > Orchids
The Pink Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium acaule), also known as the Moccasin Flower, is arguably the most famous and beloved wild orchid in North America. Gracing the acidic pine needles of eastern woodlands in late spring, this exquisite botanical treasure features...
Plants > Fabaceae
The Kentucky Yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea) is one of the rarest and most spectacularly beautiful native deciduous trees in North America. Revered for its smooth, beech-like silvery-grey bark, brilliant yellow heartwood, and colossal, wisteria-like drooping panicles...
Plants > Rosales
The St. Helena Olive (Nesiota elliptica) is a poignant, world-famous symbol of botanical extinction in the modern era. Despite its common name, it is not a true olive, but rather an evolutionarily unique flowering tree belonging to the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae)...
Plants > Apiales
Pennantia baylisiana, commonly known as the Three Kings Kaikomako, is renowned worldwide as one of the rarest plants on Earth, having once entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the single rarest tree species in existence. Discovered in 1945 on a remote,...
