Cuba Natural History Adventures

Cuba Natural History Adventures

My recently published book, Koulèv, Adventures of an American Snake Hunter: Book One, is an account of my adventurous life as a reptile collector before I turned my attention to plants. I spent a lot of time in the Caribbean exploring for reptile species in the 1960s...

African Succulent Plants – Tylecodon

The genus Tylecodon is restricted in range to South Africa and Namibia, mainly to areas of winter rainfall. They are, as a group, succulent caudiciforms or pachyforms, having fleshy trunks and limbs that store water. Their bark varies from peeling to tuberculated with...

Baobabs of Madagascar

Baobab Alley near Morondava, is perhaps the most recognizable place in Madagascar. Towering Adansonia grandidieri, the world’s tallest at over 90 feet, line a dirt road and dot the fields and swamps of the Menabe region of western Madagascar. It is but one of...