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You can help Floridata improve our visibility on the Web in many ways: "Like" us on Facebook, click Google's "+1" button on our pages and post (nice) reviews on Alexa and other sites. We appreciate your continued support! Visit us often in 2012 and be good and grow!~ Jack   February 13, 2012

Wallpaper Picture Gallery

Susan magnolia
'Susan' Magnolia

This is one of many beautiful hybrid magnolias (Magnolia x soulangeana). The 'Susan' in my back yard began blooming two weeks ago but nighttime freezes are putting a damper on the show by browning out the blossoms just when it begins to look fabulous. Click here to download a large version (800x600) so 'Susan' can look fabulous as wallpaper on your computer desktop.

Visit the Wallpaper Browser page to see more than 1,400 larger format (800x600px) plant images. Links to these images are also present in the title area of each Plant Profile.

Flowering Plants of Hawaii

kukui nut
Part 17 of Flowering Plants of Hawaii

In this latest post in his Flowering Plants of Hawaii series Bruce surveys the family Euphorbiaceae as represented on the Hawaiian Islands. Click to read Part 17 or here for menu and introduction.

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Butterfly Gallery

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Spring Flowers

dutch hyacinth
Hyacinthus orientalis

A few of my hyacinths were already blooming when a hard freeze struck last weekend and now they're not. Visit the Dutch Hyacinth Wallpaper Gallery to download large format (800x600) images.

Here are a few more spring-flowering bulbs that we'll be seeing soon (exactly when depends on where you live):
daffodil (Narcissus spp.)
Dutch crocus (Crocus spp.)
grape hyacinth (Muscari spp.)
summer snowflake (Leucojum aestivum)
tulip (Tulipa spp.)


Floridata Master Plant List
The Floridata Plant Encyclopedia profiles all kinds of plants for every kind of climate. Click on a letter button to display a list of plants by botanical name. Use the FloridataGrid page for advanced sorting, filtering and searching of the database.

Tip: move the cursor over the sunflower icon to display a photo of that plant.


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Plant Type Tags
One or more "tags", represented as icons, are are assigned to a species to indicate plant form form and type.
Feature Tags
These tags are assigned to a species to summarize characteristics and uses.

 


  

Spider Lilies for Sale!
red spider lilies
Steve is selling hurricane lilies (a.k.a. red spider lilies -- Lycoris radiata) again this year. Mature bulbs (most will bloom this autumn) will be shipped at the end of March once the plants go dormant. The price is 50 cents per bulb (minimum 20), plus postage. Contact him at spiderlily2011@hotmail.com

DJ Jack's Music Moment

I spend most of my life in front of the computer - if not for music I would be insane(r). In this space I'll share some of my favorite tunes: country, jazz, world, downtempo, lounge, electronic, house, classical, disco and whatever... ~DJ Jack.

Cafe Rio
Let's samba with jazz great David Benoit.

Previous Picks Playlist:
It's Not Right (Thunderpuss Remix) by Whitney Houston
Twiggy, Twiggy VS. James Bond by Pizzicato 5
People from the Earth and the Sun by Calm
Glamour Girl by Louie Austen
Pa' Bailer by Bajofondo
Stella by Jam and Spoon
Yachts (A Man Called Adam Remix) by Coco Steel & Lovebomb


Grow Italian

basil
Ocimum basilicum

Grow Italian this year - plant oregano (Origanum vulgare), basil (Ocimum basilicum), tomatoes (Lycopersicon lycopersicum), garlic (Allium sativum), onions (Allium cepa Cepa Group), arugula (Eruca sativa) and maybe even some eggplant (Solanum melongena).

shiny blueberry
Vaccinium myrsinites

I noticed this dwarf species of blueberry beginning to bloom last weekend at my place.

SE USA Woody Natives

leatherwood flowers
Dirca palustris

As a naturalist Steve spends a lot of time hanging out in the woods, getting to know a lot of plants that the rest of us aren't likely to encounter very often. On occasion he'll take a liking to one and sometimes they follow him home - like the leatherwood shrub that he grows in a moist shady area where he can see the funny little flowers from his yard.

More woody native species of the southeastern United States:
bigleaf magnolia (Magnolia macrophylla subsp. ashei)
Carolina silverbells (Halesia spp.)
Chapmans's azalea (Rhododendron chapmanii)
Florida flame azalea (Rhododendron austrinum)
pinxter azalea (Rhododendron canescens)
red buckeye(Aesculus pavia)
witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)

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