Category: Blooms emerge from the trunk and older stems

  • Flowers Sprouting From The Bark

    Wandering the mountain today, and a surprise. Redbuds (Cercis canadensis) within days of being in bloom. And these blooms even show up on the trunk, and older stems of the tree. This is called cauliflory. There are estimated to be more than 100 species of plants, the world over, that are cauliflorous, scattered among a…