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Symplocarpus foetidus, skunk cabbage
Banana Leaf, Allan Gardens greenhouse
Banana leaves are used as plates, containers, to wrap food, all kinds of things. An extremely useful...
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Uploaded on Mar 5, 2012
Agave filifera, threadleaf agave, Allan Gardens greenhouse
Opuntia cactus, prickly pears or nopales, Allan Gardens greenhouse
Prickly pears have soft-looking buttons which are tiny but effecctive thorns. All the more difficult to...
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Uploaded on Mar 5, 2012
Symplocarpus foetidus, skunk cabbage, in the wild
Just humour me, okay? People who live with snow get a little excited if they see spring things....
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Uploaded on Feb 28, 2012
Symplocarpus foetidus, skunk cabbage
Caulopyllum thalictroides, also called blue cohosh
Getting the cohoshes straight took me some time. This is the other Caulophyllum species native to North...
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Uploaded on Feb 27, 2012
Caulophyllum giganteum, blue cohosh
From last year, early May, north of Toronto in Aurora, in the Shepherd's Bush Conservation Area. If you...
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Uploaded on Feb 27, 2012
Anaphalis margaritacea, pearly everlasting
Pearly everlasting grows everywhere in North America except close to Mexico. It is also native to...
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Uploaded on Feb 25, 2012
Amorpha canescens, leadplant
Almost a bush, leadplant is a legume, a nitrogen-fixing plant. Like many other prairie and savanna...
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Uploaded on Feb 25, 2012
Allium cernum, nodding onion
Well, it's an onion, a member of the Alloideaea family. It smells like and onion and it tastes like an...
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Uploaded on Feb 25, 2012
Alisma triviale, northern water plantain
This is a new plant for me, and I am not entirely sure if this is A. triviale or A. cordatum, but it is...
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Uploaded on Feb 25, 2012
