Quercus geminata Medicinal mother of the Furies in

mother of the Furies in myth

marking the Gulf Coast home of the Florida azalea

Long grown in California but still little known in the southeastern United States

Lonicera fragrantissima and Lonicera standishii

shady spot where little else will bloom

Quercus geminata Medicinal mother of the Furies inSand live oak is the live oak of the sandhills, a tough, evergreen cousin of the great Southern live oak scaled for drier, leaner ground. Where Quercus virginiana spreads into a vast shade tree, this species usually stays a small tree or even a shrub, dark and dense and salt proof, holding leathery evergreen leaves through the year on the deep, dry sands of the coastal plain. The two are close kin, long lumped together, and the telling differences are