Main | Family List (MO) | Family List (INBio) | Cutting Edge Draft Treatments | Guidelines | Checklist | Citing | Editors The Cutting Edge Volume XXV, Number 1, January, 2018 News and Notes | Leaps and Bounds | Germane Literature | Season's Pick | Annotate your copy Bauhinia divaricata L. (Fabaceae) sets this year off with an explosion of flowers. This sp. has been seldom collected in Costa Rica, where it is known from dry to moist forests of the Pacific slope, at 0–600 m elevation, from northern Guanacaste Province south to the valley of the Río Grande de Candelaria. On a short forest walk not far from his digs at Cabuya, at the southern tip of the Península de Nicoya, Manual co-PI Barry Hammel (MO) recently came across a small population of this sp. Due to his delvings into the use of native spp. as ornamentals, Hammel's first thought on seeing the fine display of white and pink (-tinged) flowers was: "Wow, a native Orquídea de Palo!" Well, it's not quite as spectacular as the three or four introduced ornamental taxa of Bauninia that go by that common name, but still worth a try. Which he is doing, and anxiously awaits to see if rooted cuttings from this vigorously rhizomatous sp. take hold. See more images here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/68114448@N06/sets/72157689974485881/   TOP