The Phytophactor

Gunnera is one strange plant. It is found at higher altitudes in the wet tropics, and it's a huge leafed herbaceous perennial.  P...

While tropical plants are generally day-neutral in terms of flowering, something about the short days (actually it's the long nights) ...

September is always a schizophrenic weather month, in like summer, out like fall, and here in the Midwest the changeover can be sudden.  Las...

Today, tonight, tomorrow, all night, all day, that is starting about midnight the travel begins and with luck 18 hours later the Phactor wit...

You can take the biologist out of the tropics, but you can't take the tropics out of the biologist. A number of tropical plants actually...

While clearing out lab space the Phactor happened upon a box of ol d 3.5” disks (Hey, there are still boxes of 5.25” disks around here too.)...

The Phactor does earn his salary, and for the sake of any Lincolnland legislators who happen to read this (if any happen to be able to read!...