by Dennis Cathcart | May 23, 2022 | Plants, Reptiles, Travel
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...
by Dennis Cathcart | Apr 7, 2022 | Plants
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...
by Dennis Cathcart | Mar 28, 2022 | Book
It’s out, at last, my first book! Many of my friends, my oldest friends, will not be surprised that I wrote a book about snake hunting adventures. Others however, those that I have met in the past 40+ years in the plant world, might be surprised. They know me from my...
by Dennis Cathcart | Jan 1, 2022 | Plants
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...
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