UBC Botanical Garden
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Our goal: Plants are understood, valued, celebrated, and secure in a healthy, biodiverse world.🌿Est. 1916. In @UBCScience Vancouver, CAN. #ubcbotanicalgarden
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#WildPlantWednesday Take a walk through a coastal BC forest and you’ll often come across bigleaf maples (Acer macrophyllum). One of the biggest identifiers is just how much moss grows on this tree compared to how little often grows on neighbouring species.
#WildPlantWednesday Remember those red poinsettias that decorated everywhere from dining tables to holiday displays in the mall food court? What could they possibly have in common with the giant Douglas firs that fill much of the forests of BC? Bracts, that’s what!
#WildPlantWednesday Winter can seem a drab time of year for trees. Deciduous trees stand naked in the wind and evergreens hold their ground with little decoration. This plant is naturally occurring on site at the garden, as are a number of red alders both large and small.
#WildPlantWednesday Have you seen any trees still holding on to curled, crispy brown leaves even though autumn has long since past? This phenomenon is known as Marcescence.
January’s #WildPlantWednesday posts will help answer the question “where do our wild plants come from”, and this week we highlight donations to the Garden of wild-origin seed and plants. Pictured here is Hosackia gracilis, commonly known as seaside birds-foot trefoil.