Showing posts with label Phantom Orchid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phantom Orchid. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Fading Phantom

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Day 286: Better late than never, I suppose. Because my botany partners were unavailable until next week when the temperatures are due to ris...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Budding Cephalanthera

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Day 271: The forest and I are growing old together. As my strength and stamina begin to wane, the woods are becoming more deeply tangled. Li...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Going Extinct

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Day 274: There is a reason I am showing you another photo of Cephalanthera austiniae today. I want to embed it firmly in your minds so that ...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Cephalanthera

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Day 273: Navigating trailless forest in pre-dawn twilight presents a few challenges most hikers will never experience, but in order to be th...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Queen Of Plants Without Chlorophyll

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Day 284: About a week ago, I received an email from Arnie with the salutation, "Oh, queen of plants without chlorophyll," which ...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Cephalanthera Census

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Day 270: Cephalanthera austiniae is only known from one location in Mount Rainier National Park. Since the Park's establishment in 18...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Chasing Phantoms

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Day 270: Putting this in perspective, the three people who make up the core of Team Biota are three of only six or seven individuals who ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

A Team Biota Day

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Day 257: Team Biota had a field day yesterday in two senses of the phrase. We spend 9.5 hours in a variety of habitats, including lowland...
Friday, June 1, 2018

First 2018 Phantom

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Day 231: Perhaps even more exciting than Team Biota's other recent finds, if perhaps not as showy, the first Phantom Orchid (Cephalan...
Saturday, July 8, 2017

Crow And Arnie's Excellent Adventure

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Day 268: Park Plant Ecologist Arnie Peterson and I met up Friday morning, left my car on one side of a hill, drove around to the other s...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Chasing Phantoms

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Day 264: First, let me correct the dates I gave previously. Until recently, Cephalanthera austiniae (Phantom Orchid) had only been seen i...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Cephalanthera Austiniae, Phantom Orchid

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Day 258: About a year and a half ago, Park Plant Ecologist Arnie Peterson gave me a challenge: every week, I was to find a new plant (i.e...