Chickenweed Purslane (Portulaca quadrifida)

Chickenweed Purslane (Portulaca quadrifida)

Native range of Chickenweed Purslane (Portulaca quadrifida) is Tropical & Subtropical Old World to Southwest Pacific Elevation: 127 meters.


Dioscorea lanata

Dioscorea lanata

The shape of the leaves provides information that this is a species and an individual with a huge growth potential. Dioscorea lanata is a twining plant that…


Dioscorea lanata

Dioscorea lanata

Dioscorea lanata is endemic to Socotra. Dioscorea…</p><hr class=

Purslane (Portulaca)

Purslane (Portulaca)

A very small plant that is very easy to miss unless you get down on your knees. One of the currently five Portulaca species on Socotra Elevation: 918 meters.……


Giant Red-winged Grasshopper (Tropidacris cristata)

Giant Red-winged Grasshopper (Tropidacris cristata)

The forest around the Amazon Research and Conservation Center is teaming with insects (ARCC), and on the base of a tree I found many attracted to sap coming…


Diophanes salvifolius

Just walking amongst the buildings of Amazon Research and Conservation Center (ARCC) will reveal lots of insects, and this female diophanes salvifolius is one…


Dioscorea perdicum

Dioscorea perdicum

Native range of dioscorea perdicum is southeastern Brazil. Altitude: 2449 meters.


Portulaca cryptopetala

Portulaca cryptopetala

The soil on this part of Pantanal (between Corumbá and Miranda) is in many places fine sand - just like a desert or a beach. Just after a couple of hundred…