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Frosted sumac, Ripening palm fruit, Aligning bright planets
Laurel sumac (Malosma laurina) has green foliage year-round, new leaves are reddish-bronze in color. Leaves tend to fold resembling taco shells which gives it the common name "taco plant."
The Frost-Nipped Legacies Of Last November’s And December’s Cold Spells aren’t hard to spot. Brown lawns, half-dead-looking avocado trees, and wilted ornamental plants like poinsettias in certain areas of San Diego County tell the story plainly enough. But a common frost-sensitive native plant — the laurel sumac — is even more widely expressive. Laurel sumac is one of the largest and most conspicuous plants within the coastal-sage-scrub vegetation community growing on many of San Diego’s coastal hillsides. They tend to become noticeably frost-bitten in low lying areas, where chilled air sinks and settles in during the night and early morning hours.
A close-up of a cluster of Fan Palm fruit
Ripening Palm Fruit, Hanging In Great Clusters on California’s native fan palms (Washingtonia filifera), can be seen (and tasted) this month. The black, pea-sized fruit consists of a deliciously sweet but almost paper-thin skin surrounding a hard seed. (These are not “California dates” — the fruit of cultivated palms introduced into California’s deserts from northern Africa.) Our native fan palms can be seen in their natural habitat in about two dozen canyons within Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. They have also been planted widely elsewhere in California, including along the main streets of Palm Springs.
January 25: A Great Planetary Alignment? It’s hard enough to get all your ducks in a row, so imagine the challenge of someone doing the same for all their planets. Hence the buzz around the truly remarkable event set to take place this Saturday: four of our solar system’s five “bright planets” in alignment. (Poor Uranus and Neptune aren’t visible even with binoculars, and the fifth bright planet, Mercury, is too near the sun to show up against a dark sky.) Mind you, that’s alignment, not lineup. Two of them, Venus and Saturn, will show up in the western sky, while the other two, Jupiter and Mars, will appear in the east. In terms of timing and height in the sky, it looks to be the best overall planet-view in years.
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Frosted sumac, Ripening palm fruit, Aligning bright planets
Frosted sumac, Ripening palm fruit, Aligning bright planets
Laurel sumac (Malosma laurina) has green foliage year-round, new leaves are reddish-bronze in color. Leaves tend to fold resembling taco shells which gives it the common name "taco plant."
The Frost-Nipped Legacies Of Last November’s And December’s Cold Spells aren’t hard to spot. Brown lawns, half-dead-looking avocado trees, and wilted ornamental plants like poinsettias in certain areas of San Diego County tell the story plainly enough. But a common frost-sensitive native plant — the laurel sumac — is even more widely expressive. Laurel sumac is one of the largest and most conspicuous plants within the coastal-sage-scrub vegetation community growing on many of San Diego’s coastal hillsides. They tend to become noticeably frost-bitten in low lying areas, where chilled air sinks and settles in during the night and early morning hours.
A close-up of a cluster of Fan Palm fruit
Ripening Palm Fruit, Hanging In Great Clusters on California’s native fan palms (Washingtonia filifera), can be seen (and tasted) this month. The black, pea-sized fruit consists of a deliciously sweet but almost paper-thin skin surrounding a hard seed. (These are not “California dates” — the fruit of cultivated palms introduced into California’s deserts from northern Africa.) Our native fan palms can be seen in their natural habitat in about two dozen canyons within Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. They have also been planted widely elsewhere in California, including along the main streets of Palm Springs.
January 25: A Great Planetary Alignment? It’s hard enough to get all your ducks in a row, so imagine the challenge of someone doing the same for all their planets. Hence the buzz around the truly remarkable event set to take place this Saturday: four of our solar system’s five “bright planets” in alignment. (Poor Uranus and Neptune aren’t visible even with binoculars, and the fifth bright planet, Mercury, is too near the sun to show up against a dark sky.) Mind you, that’s alignment, not lineup. Two of them, Venus and Saturn, will show up in the western sky, while the other two, Jupiter and Mars, will appear in the east. In terms of timing and height in the sky, it looks to be the best overall planet-view in years.
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