Walter Fertig

Speaking of Specimens: Tales from the Marion Ownbey Herbarium, Washington State University. ​# 25. Columbia locoweed ( Oxytropis campestris var . columbiana )    Teenager Luana Boner lived on the south side of Chicago during the Great Depression, but aspired to study botany at the State...

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Speaking of Specimens: Tales from the Marion Ownbey Herbarium, Washington State University. ​# 23. Bird-of-Paradise ( Strelitzia reginae )    In its native South Africa, this species is commonly called crane flower for its resemblance to the crowned crane ( Balearica pavonina ), a...

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Number 22 in the series Speaking of Specimens with the story of the plane Euell Gibbons called the "supermarket of the swamps"

Everyone loves the horrible smelly plant Putricia! Is it the only good thing left in this world? | First Dog on the Moon Corpse flower mania is sweeping the nation (inner-city Sydney)

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Number 21 in the Ownbey Herbarium series "Speaking of Specimens" about nematodes that have the gall to trick grass flowers into feeding their larvae.