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Botanically, this widespread native species is known as Encyclia tampensis. The species name, tampensis , was first applied by John Lindley, the foremost orchid expert of the first half of the 19 th Century. He chose the name because the first specimen was sent to him from the Tampa Bay region of Florida by Dr. John Torrey in The -ensis ending just indicates that the plant is from the place shown in the part of the name that precedes it.

The genus Encyclia to which E. As now understood, Encyclia includes species ranging from Florida as far south as northern Argentina. The name was first assigned to a Brazilian species where the side lobes of the lip encircle the reproductive column the structure combining the stamens and pistils that makes the orchid family unique. Unique architecturally designed two story custom built home nestled in a private wooded preserve in the Redland. Beautiful ash wood staircase, formal living room and dining room, tongue and groove ceiling, huge windows overlooking a natural hammock, kitchen completely remodeled with granite throughout.

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Among plants adding to the tropical ambience of South Florida's natural landscape are members of the plant family Bromeliaceae, the bromeliads. Bromeliaceae is sometimes called the pineapple family because that ground-growing species, Ananas comosus from Brazil, is the most familiar representative of the group. But equally familiar to people who have traveled in the American South is Spanish Moss, Tillandsia usneoides , which is, at first glance, about as un-pineapple-like as you can get.

But this most widespread of all bromeliads — it ranges from coastal Virginia all the way south to central Argentina and is found in all 67 counties of Florida — is one of the 16 species and two presumed natural hybrids in the family considered native to our state. These plants are spotlighted in an excellent new book titled Native Bromeliads of Florida by Harry E.

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Luther and David H. It is nicely illustrated with black-and-white pictures and a few line drawings plus 38 generally high-quality color photographs depicting all the species discussed. David Benzing, who holds a Ph. Thus, the reader of Native Bromeliads of Florida could not ask for a more authoritative pair of writers on the subject. The book delineates Florida's 18 native bromeliads, including the three that do not occur in the southern end of the state -- Tillandsia bartramii , the apparently endemic Tillandsia simulata, and Tillandsia x floridana , a putative hybrid of T.

It also discusses familiar South Florida species, such as the widespread and beautiful Tillandsia fasciculata , with its flame red flower spikes even though the red comes from colorful bracts protecting the small, tubular purple flowers and the even more widespread but not so beautiful Ball Moss, Tillandsia recurvata. There's a discussion of our largest bromeliad, Tillandsia utriculata , which is unique among our native species in that it flowers only once then dies. Also with its major Florida populations in the Fakahatchee is Guzmania monostachia , the only member of that genus in the state.

Each of these bromeliads and the other natives is treated with a short chapter that includes a brief taxonomic history of the species, a dot distribution map showing in which of Florida's 67 counties the species occurs, a description of the plant and a discussion of its habitat as well a mention of its distribution outside Florida, plus other interesting tidbits about the species. There is also a dichotomous key to help distinguish among the three native bromeliad genera Catopsis, Guzmania and Tillandsia , with further keys to the three Catopsis species and 14 tillandsias. The keys are written in language that's fairly easy to understand for the amateur, and there is a glossary in the back of the book to help with any unfamiliar terms.

But what makes his book equally informative is the introductory material. In just 42 pages, the authors provide a primer on the family Bromeliaceae, which is made up of some 3, species mainly in the New World tropics and subtropics, with an odd outlier in adjacent West Africa.

In clear, accessible prose, the authors discuss the anatomy and physiology of bromeliads, as well as providing a brief look at the general taxonomy of the family, always putting the Florida species into context within the topic being discussed.

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There is also a discussion about the threat to our bromeliads by the invasive Metamesius beetle. This introductory material is invaluable, as is the whole volume. Students and lovers of our indigenous flora will definitely want to add Native Bromeliads of Florida to their library. And it's a publishing bargain to boot. Often times, while in the woods, I see some native plants and wonder Why isn't that in cultivation? Well, now that I am in the business of selling native plants, I have started dabbling with some of these potential gems.

One such plant is Bushy fleabane Pluchea caroliniensis in the Sunflower Family Asteraceae , whose native habitat is the edges of hammocks and disturbed areas in South Florida. Leaves are fragrant when crushed, and Santeria practitioners call it Salvia although it is not related to Sage. Medicinally they use it as a poultice with camphor or menthol for curing bronchial congestion or as a tea for headaches or sore throats. It has also been used to cure fungal infections on the skin.

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One use I need to try out one of these days is to stuff a bunch of leaves under your hat in order to keep you cool! Another major highlight of this plant is that it is an absolute favorite nectar plant for butterflies and other pollinators.


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I have stood in front of Bushy fleabane flowering in the Florida Keys and counted over 10 different types of pollinators on a single cluster of plants. It is a fast growing medium sized shrub, usually ' in height, and as broad as tall. It is best for full sun where the butterflies love to be. One seeming drawback is that it is short lived; rarely lasting more than 4 or 5 years in the landscape, but that is okay.

We too often view our yards as something permanent, however, Nature doesn't work that way, so why should we? If you want oodles of butterflies and other pollinators in your yard, make a place for bushy fleabane! Passiflora sexflora , or "goatsfoot" is a Florida-endangered passionflower vine whose global range includes the tropical Americas and the West Indies.

Due to local rarity of this species, Fairchild staff conducted field surveys, mapped individuals, and propagated plants in the nursery from On a snowy Christmas Eve, she bids a silent farewell to the village and sets out. Much to her surprise, the magic of a white Christmas awaits her, as do hundreds of fairies who have been keeping watch over Oona since the day she was born. Illustrated by Christopher Denise. From Book Jacket: To be sure, Biddy Malone is a singer and a dancer, though her dundering feet fall all over each other and her voice sounds like a rusty gate.

And then one day Biddy stumbles upon a faerie village and meets a loveling so beautiful, he takes her breath away. And when he asks to hear her three deepest wishes, she tells him every one, but all too soon, she learns that something gained for nothing has no value, and that wishes can only come true if you make them come true yourself. These are some of the characters steeped in the supernatural who inhabit these tales. The famine began in , and by , a million people had died and a further one and a half million had fled the country, many journeying across the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships to make new lives in America.

Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. Katie can hardly stand to look at them. She misses him so much, and ever since he left for America, she keeps saying the wrong things. Now it seems that her unhappy wish has come true. Almost overnight, the potatoes have turned rotten, and sickness is sweeping over Ireland. Could her words really be that powerful? Smudge and the Book of Mistakes , by Gloria Whelan. Illustrated by Stephen Costanza. Ambrose is situated on the Irish island of Morcarrick.

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Here, monks old and young live quiet lives spent in prayer and service. One day the Abbott decides that Brother Bede, their finest illuminator of manuscripts, will illustrate the Christmas Story. It will be magnificent, praised throughout the world. Walking to School , by Eve Bunting.

It was downright dangerous if you were Catholic, like Allison, and the only route to your school was through a Protestant neighborhood.

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But the angry behavior of some of the Catholic grownups — including her own uncle — frightened her too. The Ballywhinney Girl , by Eve Bunting. It turns out to be the mummy of a young girl who lived more than a thousand years ago. A girl like Maeve, with fair hair, who walked the same fields and picked the same flowers. Or does she miss the green meadow where she had lain for so many hundreds of years? Market Day , by Eve Bunting. Illustrated by Holly Berry. Thursday has arrived, and the streets of this tiny Irish village are chock-full of fun.

Mar 21, Charles Bradlaugh, 1, The Time Traveller visits the year , The people seem to live peacefully with nothing to do but eat fruit, gather flowers and play. But what is the hidden secret of this world? What happens on the darkest night? In one of the greatest science fiction novels, H. Wells explores the future of the human race.

Wells H. The Selected Works of H. Wells is often referred to as the father of science fiction and this compendium of his stories contains two of his most well-known works in the genre, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds But Wellss phenomenal imagination ranged far and wide and thus we have included here two works of comic social realism, Kipps and The History of Mr. Polly , stories that resound with Edwardian dreams, frustrations and triumphs. Wells is such a brilliant storyteller that well over a century after their publication, all of these texts are as fresh and compelling to us today as they would have been when his initial readers first turned their pages, often in astonishment and frequently in amusement.

This is certainly a collection of the very best of H.

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Wells and we encourage you to devour them, and above all to enjoy the mercurial talent of this most original and precocious writer. Herbert George Wells - was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. The World Set Free is a futuristic novel, written in and first published the following year.

It was incredibly prophetic on a major scale, since Wells predicted nuclear warfare years before research began and described a weapon of enormous destructive power, that is used from the air and that would wipe out everything for miles.


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