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Navasota Ladies’ Tresses
Road Block 1983 On this day newspaper headline on this day in The Town Talk in Alexandria, Louisiana said, ‘Rare Plant Halts Road Work.’ It turns out, a fifteen-million-dollar highway-widening project near College Station was stopped because it threatened a tiny, rare, and unusual orchid plant. The Spiranthes parksii (ii = “ee-eye”), is also known as…
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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 10, 1983 On this day, dear readers, a most peculiar headline graced the pages of The Town Talk in Alexandria, Louisiana. It proclaimed, with no small measure of astonishment, ‘Rare Plant Halts…
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