Insane mast year
Water oak covering Atlanta with the cutest acorns ever

Eastern Forest playing cards are back in stock! Each card a different species, each suit a different sense. Art by Ellen Litwiller, micropoems on natural history by me. All my proceeds to enviro ed and conservation. Celebrating human play and forest biodiversity 💚

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Flowers are great illusionists. Here's one example. Others are more extreme, like orchids that mimic female wasps, conning males into trysts that are fruitless for the insect but very helpful for the flower.
Illusion is a theme that runs through my book, How Flowers Made our World, out next March.

Delighted to send the manuscript for my next book to my editor. How flowers made our world...

A contrarian plant. When all else goes dormant, the cranefly orchid pops up.
The plant's name refers to the twisted flower which looks like a wounded cranefly. The flowers are pollinated by moths who get rewarded for visiting the flower by having a pollen sack glued to one of their eyes. Nice.
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It's book giving season! I'll mail you a customized bookplate to include with gifts.
Now out in paperback:
🦜🎵🐸🎻Sounds Wild and Broken

🌴🌳🌲🍁The Songs of Trees

💚🔎🍄🦌The Forest Unseen

👃🌿 Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree. Published in UK; Blackwell’s ships free to US.

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