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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...
Just out: Koulèv: Adventures of an American Snake Hunter, Book One
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...
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 six...

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