Smorgas-gourd
“I am ignorant of almost everything” is a favorite saying of mine, and truth be told it is an obvious truth for us all. It is what makes us so lucky to be plant lovers, since we are reminded with the new personal and universal discoveries of Nature every single day. Know-it-alls need not apply for attendance at Nature’s banquets – though they might learn the most. One of my recent revelations of a horticultural bent was about – gourds. I have seen them, and have a vague sense that they are cucurbits, that is that they are in the Cucurbitaceae, the family that also includes...
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