Edible Pod (Rat Tail) Radish hyper-productive, tender, mild-flavored, nutritious vegetable

dible Pod Radish makes an enlarged, succulent, crunchy pod, in the same fashion as green-beans and snap-peas. The tip of the pod tapers to a fine point, giving it a fanciful resemblance to a rat-tail … a name by which it was formerly found in seed-catalogs etc, but is now not often seen. Seed-pod vegetables …

Cretaceous-Tertiary, Paleogene Confusion

The term Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T), for the boundary or transition between those two geological periods, has been in use for many generations. Then one day it was unilaterally decreed, by an unelected, unaccountable and generally unknown entity or person (a Professor, or group of them), that henceforth everyone should use the term Cretaceous-Paleogene, instead. This is …

Genealogy & Pedigree for Plants curious relations of photosynthetic organisms

enealogy for Plants cannot readily be done with the same software that we use for human families (and which can be used for other animals, though perhaps with difficulties), for two reasons. One, many plants are self-fertile.  There are flexible and variable versions of this, such as with apple trees which may require a pollinator-variety, …

Carrie Basin, Bailey Range, Olympic Nat’l Park

arrie Basin is an informal name for a Shangri La subalpine valley on the main Bailey Range ridge of the , and the in which they’re enclosed. It’s a hanging-valley, jutting out from the ridge, a free-air waterfall launching from cliff-gated slot-canyon mouth, into a 1,000 foot unapproachable cataract-plunge. There is Fairchild Creek, fed from …

Bear candy of Salmonberry A wild-raspberry vegetable with production-potential

ear candy is the tender spring cane-shoots of a wild relative of the garden-raspberry. In the greater Pacific Northwest of the US, this plant, R. spectabilis, is a ranking – and rank – invasive native weed. Those who work in the brush in this region, in the landscaping trades, or just take care of their …

Sourdough Mountain, Olympic Nat’l Park comfortable, unofficial, near-in backcountry Olympic Park destination

ourdough Mountain, as the name implies, hosted a mining camp that appears to be a moderately-serious old base-camp or prospect, on a line of recorded claims along a band of mineralization, ca 1930s.  It consists of a fairly/partly level little sheltered meadow in the trees, on the ridge-top and tucked in against the west foot …