The Phytophactor

This is such a cute little plant, but Nymphaea thermarum, the pygmy waterlily, is extinct in the wild because of habitat destruction.  It...

OK nothing too exotic, just a water lily, but it was such a nice image, the white tepals against the darker background.  People always ask...

Now this really pisses TPP off.  Plant theft in general is annoying, but when the plant is rare to the point of being extinct in the wild, a...

With so many summer flowers withering in the heat and drought, it stands to reason that the only flowers that are looking good are aquatics....

Here's a not very awesome image of a "flower" of Trithuria submerse (Hydatellaceae). As the name suggests this is a monogener...

Undaunted by having lost this post to an electrical failure earlier, the Phactor will endeavor to X-plain another confusing botanical subjec...