Lichens are a complex life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga.
Category: Dec2020
The December 2020 edition of The Chachalaca newsletter.
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by Maria Reyna-Gomez On Saturday, November 21. 2020, members of our Rio Grande Valley Chapter participated in a beach cleanup at Boca Chica Beach. Several
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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is host to Citizen Science Project FeederWatch. I have participated in this program for several years now and find it very rewarding.
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Elections were held at the December 8 RGVC TMN meeting…drum roll, please… Robert Gaitan was elected President, Carolyn Cardile will be our new Secretary, and the rest of the
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Painted leaf, fire on the mountain, Mexican fire plant, Texas poinsettia, wild poinsettia. By whatever name you know it, Euphorbiaceae cyathophóra is a North and South American native and cousin to the commercially important December poinsettias.
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We are happy to announce, we are adopting! How many? Perhaps one, two, …, nine?