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...

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...

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...