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Salento, Colombia

Wax Palms of Cocora Valley

The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.
Gianni Zonin, Count Cicogna, and Gabriele Rausse in 1978 making plans for Barboursville’s Vineyard.
food

How Two Italians Achieved a 200-Year-Old Dream of Virginian Wine

Since Thomas Jefferson first tried, growing European vines had always failed.
Eric J. Wallace March 19, 2018
Nemour Mansion's Beax-Arts facade.
Wilmington, Delaware

Nemours Estate

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.
Do most islands really look like this?
islands

Most Islands Don't Actually Have Palm Trees on Them

A quick and dirty calculation reveals the reality behind the stereotype.
Eric Grundhauser March 9, 2018
New Orleans, Louisiana

Tulane’s Mardi Gras Bead Tree

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.
Brief Garden.
Kirantidiya, Sri Lanka

Brief Garden

This luscious masterpiece created by landscape designer Bevis Bawa inspired the work of his brother, a famous Sri Lankan architect.
The beautiful Brunfelsia grandiflora flower.
Gastro Obscura

Chiric Sanango

A vibrant, lesser-known hallucinogen of the Amazon.
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Cats of Longwood Gardens

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.
Studabaker sign seen on Google Maps.
New Carlisle, Indiana

Studebaker Tree Sign

One of the world’s largest living advertisements is made out of pine trees.
This Sitka spruce, sometimes called "The World's Loneliest Tree," contains hard evidence of humans' outsized influence on the planet.
islands

The Island That May Hold the Key to the Beginning of the Anthropocene

A subantarctic spot off the coast of New Zealand is home to a very special tree.
Cara Giaimo March 8, 2018
geology

The Succulent That Looks Like a Stone

Plant some lithops and fill your window box with living pebbles.
Eric Grundhauser March 7, 2018
Front entrance of the Gibraltar Mansion.
Wilmington, Delaware

Marian Coffin Garden

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.
The fairy lantern plant called Thismia neptunis was all but lost.
science

Found: A Tropical Plant Last Spotted Over 150 Years Ago

Thismia neptunis is back, and its alien looks were worth the wait.
Christina Ayele Djossa March 6, 2018
Niigata, Japan

Wara Art

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.
Snake skin outside, tart pulp inside.
Gastro Obscura

Snakefruit

Beneath its serpent-like skin lies pineapple-flavored flesh.
Gastro Obscura

Spruce Beer

This Christmas tree elixir kept Vikings and Captain Cook alive.
Tree molds.
La Pine, Oregon

Lava Cast Forest

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.
Where artificial light enters, lamp flora is likely to follow.
caves

The Green Slime That Flourishes in Light-Filled Caves

Where there is light, organisms will follow.
Chris Drudge March 1, 2018