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unknown species all over Costa Rica. check out the pink, petal-like "bracts" (modified leaves) and the tiny star-shaped flowers. Beauty’s in the eye of the beholder. Yep, just started this post with a cliche. Forgive me, or don’t. For instance, I’ll be hiking Mt. Sutro with a friend, who will say, “Oh, this [...]  Not only did I encounter fungus as it faded back into the earth on my winter solstice walk (see previous post) but, as I penetrated deeper into the woods at the top of East-West Ranch (Cambria, CA), there were plenty of fresh mushroom jewels still standing in all their otherworldliness. By this time, my [...] same species, dozens of cultivars reveling in full-on flower It’s easy, if you’re not a botanizing freak, to be shocked by the sudden appearance of fruit on a plant where there were recently pretty flowers. Or, perhaps, to not even realize the post-flower structures are indeed fruits — the swollen, fertilized ovaries [...] |
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