Category: Natural History

When is a White Trillium not?

Post author By Gavan
Post date May 1, 2017
Categories In instrgram, Natural History, Plants
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A post shared by Gavan Watson (@gavanwatson) on Apr 30, 2017 at 5:56am PDT Here’s a bit of a natural history mystery that I found yesterday: this green flower in a bed of White Trilliums (Trillium grandiflorum); something that I had never seen before. The few initial web references I found suggested this is caused […]

The possibility of naturalists

Post author By Gavan
Post date May 12, 2010
Categories In Natural History
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photo credit: cliff1066™ Being a naturalist is something that I’ve been thinking about personally and academically for a while now. Now when I say naturalist, images such as this painting of John James Audubon may come to mind. Being a 19th century naturalist was one of collecting and cataloguing, attempting to create order out of […]