Orchid Trees & Their Problematic Trunks

With spring in Los Angeles arriving midwinter, it only makes sense that summer should come in early spring. A new kind of sun has arrived – one that turns the sky pink and mauve and purple in i...

Bauhinias and the Bauhin Brothers

  The greatest compliment that can be paid to a botanist is to have a plant named in his honor. But if two great botanists happen to be brothers, what then? If a plant is given the brothers̵...