Plants > Fagales
The Swamp Chestnut Oak (Quercus michauxii), celebrated throughout the American South as the Basket Oak or Cow Oak, is a colossal, majestic canopy tree native to rich alluvial river floodplains. Renowned for its enormous, sweet-tasting acorns that can exceed an inch...
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 > Trees & Shrubs
The Mountain Camellia (Stewartia ovata) is universally acclaimed as one of the most exquisitely beautiful native flowering trees in North America. Endemic to the cool, shaded coves of the southern Appalachian Mountains, this rare tea family member is famous for its...
Plants > Trees & Shrubs
The Two-winged Silverbell (Halesia diptera) is an enchanting, graceful deciduous understory tree native to the damp river bottoms and shaded ravines of the American South. In early spring, before its leaves fully unfold, this lovely woodland native covers its drooping...
Plants > Ericales
The Jellyfish Tree (Medusagyne oppositifolia) is an enigmatic botanical living fossil and the sole member of its evolutionary lineage, native only to the mist-covered granite summits of Mahé in the Seychelles. Thought to have vanished into extinction during the early...
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