Main | Family List (MO) | Family List (INBio) | Cutting Edge Draft Treatments | Guidelines | Checklist | Citing | Editors The Cutting Edge Volume XXII, Number 4, October 2015 News and Notes | Leaps and Bounds | Germane Literature | Season's Pick | Annotate your copy SEASON'S PICK: It's a grand slam for Tilesia baccata (L.) Pruski (Asteraceae), winning (here as pick of the season) in three categories (see also under "Leaps and Bounds"). While this sp. is quite widespread in tropical America (thoughout South America and the West Indies), it hadn't been collected on the mainland this side of Prov. Bocas del Toro, Panama. These fine photos by Manual Asteraceae contributor Alexánder Rodríguez (CR) demonstrate the beauty of the beast, giving us to think we might find a spot for it in our yard full of natives. Given its apparent tendency to scramble (the Flora mesoamericana draft treatment records it as an herb, shrub, or vine), all will depend on its genes, how it responds to the particulars of our yard, and the pruning shears! Well, and also on getting some seeds or cuttings of it. Alex reports that in the field, on roadsides with plenty of light, it behaves as a prostrate herb, but that in forest shade it becomes subscandent. Vouchered by A. Rodríguez et al. 14406 (CR). TOP