The Palmetto

29/12/2022

The Palmetto 38(4) is in mailboxes and inboxes!
In this issue:
🦋Tropical Milkweed: Harmful to Monarchs and Florida Ecosystems by Lilly Anderson-Messec
🌴A Plant Conservation Program with Amazing Outreach by Raul Moas
🧠FNPS Botanical Crosswords
💮 Pigeonwings and Butterfly Peas by Roger L. Hammer
On the cover: White swamp milkweed (Asclepias perennis) photo by Lilly Anderson-Messec
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06/12/2022

The Palmetto 38(3) is in mailboxes and inboxes!
In this issue:
🎨Art and Science in Action by Kim Heise
👩Eliane M. Norman: Questions, Mysteries and Puzzles by Jim Erwin
⛏️Time to Dig: Underground Storage Organs of Plants in Fire-Maintained Pine Savannas by Milton H. Diaz-Toribio and F.E. "Jack Putz.
💮The Clustervines of Florida by Roger Hammer
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17/05/2022

The Palmetto 38(2) is in the wild!
In this issue:
🏵️The Purslanes of Florida by Roger L. Hammer
🌿Red Mangrove: Ecology of a Keystone Species (Part 2) by Linda Eastman and Leigh Goddeau
🍃Native Plants for Home Landscapes: A Look at Florida's Native Hollies
📘Book Review: André Michaux in North America

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🥳Our Annual Conference is this weekend! Compete in our Plant ID Contest and expand your native plant knowledge by registering today. Registration closes Friday at 5pm. https://www.fnps.org/conference/register

15/12/2021

The Palmetto 37(3) has been delivered to most of our members' mailboxes and members who have opted-in to a electronic copy of The Palmetto have already received it in their inboxes.
In this issue:

🦋Beyond Monarchs & Milkweed: More Native "Weeds" That Sustain Butterfly Diversity by Andee Naccarato
🌿Red Mangrove: Ecology of a Keystone Species (Part 1) by Linda Eastman and Leigh Goddeau
🍃Plant Profile: Groundsel Tree by Ginny Stibolt
📘Book Review: Herbarium, The Quest to Preserve & Classify the World's Plants
🥀Remembering Chuck McCartney (1947-2020)

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07/07/2021

07/07/2021

The Palmetto 37(2) has been delivered to most of our members' mailboxes and members who have opted-in to a electronic copy of The Palmetto have already received it in their inboxes.
In this issue:
🥺Guilt & the Cabbage Palm by F.E. "Jack" Putz
🌴Cabbage Palms and Lethal Bronzing by Jono Miller
🎨Coastal Scenes Through the Eyes of an Artist and a Scientist
🌴The Palm Family (Arecaceae) by Ginny Stibolt
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24/02/2021

The Palmetto 37(1) has been delivered to most of our members' mailboxes and members who have opted-in to a electronic copy of The Palmetto have already received it in their inboxes.
In this issue:
🐞Tarflower Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society's Backyard Biodiversity Day in review
🥀Stranglers, Lovers and Tubes - plants cohabitating with Cabbage Palms by Jono Miller
🌿Endangered Florida of the Florida Keys by Roger Hammer
🌸Plant profile: Catesby's Lily / Lillium catesbaei
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24/02/2021

In the upcoming Palmetto magazine ( #37-1) you'll find an article by Jono Miller on the interactions of cabbage palms and "strangler" trees like the native strangler fig, Ficus aurea.

Parasitic Protection June 14, 2017 Strangler figs are remarkable organisms. Germinating in the canopy of another tree, their roots gradually wrap around the host, growing down towards to forest floor. Once in the soil, the interwoven structure of the fig begins to grow and swell. Over time, the stra...

10/12/2020

The Palmetto 36(3) has been sent to the printer and should be in members' mailboxes in a few weeks! Members who have opted-in to a electronic copy of The Palmetto have already received it in their inboxes.

In this issue:
🕷️An ode to the endemic red widow spider
🌻How to convert your lawn to native wildflowers
🌿The art of native ferns
📚Book review: A Step-by-Step Guide to a Florida Native Yard
🌸Plant profile: Sunshine Mimosa, Mimosa strigillosa

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10/12/2020

The Palmetto 36(3) has been sent to the printer and should be in members' mailboxes in a few weeks! Members who have opted-in to a electronic copy of The Palmetto have already received it in their inboxes.

23/10/2020

The Palmetto 36(2) is live!
📸Cover photo by Andrea England of My Florida Meadow Co
---Chock full of excellent articles ---
🎋Planting a Wildflower Meadow by Craig Huegel
🌼 Paper Wasps as Pollinators' by George Rogers
🪨 Soil: The Ecosystem Beneath our Feet by Ginny Stibolt
📗 Book Review of "Nature's Best Hope" by Sue Dingwell
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📧Members who have opted-in to the digital Palmetto received it in their mailboxes last week.
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08/02/2020

Palmetto Volume 35 Number 3 is in the mail!
📸ON THE COVER: The rare orchid Pelexia adnata, photographed in Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park by Roger L. Hammer.
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