Firebush plants are essential for Florida’s native wildlife. The gorgeous flowers are often visited by pollinators such as butterflies and hummingbirds. The red fruits gradually turn purple or black ...

bursts into orange-red flowers. If you look around Palm Beach now in our summery off-season, you can see the royal poinciana ...

Most houseplants grown for their foliage don’t need or want too much direct sun, and their foliage alone can provide an ...

Florida anise also produces suckers, which can be transplanted as new plants, if carefully dug. Illicium floridanum ‘Halley’s Comet’ is a vigorous cultivar with dark green foliage and abundant deep ...

It has relatively small, scale-like bright red flowers and yellow egg-shaped fruit. HABITAT: This cactus grows on bare rock with a minimum humus-soil cover in hammocks near sea level. RANGE: This ...

Red scorched patches of grass, to my newly installed bougainvilleas (pink flowering vine) losing all of their vibrant flowers ...

“These beautiful plants are part of what makes South Florida so special,” said Elise Bennett ... it’s a beautiful perennial herb with a red stem and delicate, yellow flowers. Sand flax: The sand flax ...

In 2017, FLORIDA ... Female plants produce a brown cone with a velvety fuzz that covers the seeds. When the seeds are ripe, the cone breaks open and reveals shiny, orange-red, waxy-coated ...

Here are some common ants you’ll find in Florida and what to be aware of. Fire ants: You can tell fire ants are bad news by name alone. These small, red ants ... your yard, plants and even ...

These leafless orchids bloom in the dark and shadows in Cuba and South Florida and once open the flowers possess ... as Endangered on IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Habitat destruction and ...

The seeds were launched aboard a rocket of U.S. aerospace manufacturer SpaceX from an air base in Florida on ... seeds of the plant, which is known to have borne red flowers in the bombed-out ...