The Phytophactor

Each year the Botanical Society of America, with a number of its sister organizations, get together for a 4 day phantasmagorical orgy of bot...

TPP admits to some bias with regard to flowers: the grasses, the sedges, and the rushes tend to get ignored, so here's a large semi-sh...

Since TPP was holding down the fort, while Mrs. Phactor, F1 & her Guy were off to Oxford Univ. for a graduation ( a niece) and some ...

What? Today 24 July is international tequila day?  TPP doesn't understand, every day is international tequila day!  In a remarkable coin...

Ants! You really do have to admire them! Although tiny they function as a super organism, and when you've spent any time in the tropics ...

This time of year it's unusual for a house plant to be the featured FFF, but this is one of the house plants that could go outside fo...

This is sort of a neat observation , based on 3 captive animals, so you know, let's not go crazy and suggest things like preferring ferm...

Today is a hot, humid day, the worst so far this summer.  Some thunder storms may roll in later.  Hmm, the actually humidity is 70% and the ...

Plagiarism, now this is something us oldish professor types know about. No question about it, entire sentences from Michelle Obama's spe...

Woke up this AM feeling unwell; it was the usual time when the black paws alarm went off, but usually Mrs. Phactor turns it off (diverts its...