Loading…
14
A retired botanist at the Tucson arboretum taught me to look at leaves differently
She handed me a magnifying loupe and said the hairs on a leaf's underside tell you more than the flower ever will. Now I can't walk past a shrub without flipping a leaf over, has anyone else picked up a habit like that from a chance chat?
1 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In1 Comment
spencer_sanchez6711d ago
Hairs on a leaf's underside tell you more than the flower ever will" sounds like a nice line but I'm not buying that it's some big deal. Most plants you walk past are the same few kinds, so once you flip a couple leaves you've seen it all. It's a neat trick, sure, but let's not pretend it changes how you see every bush on the block.
7