Spurge, variety Blackbird. With a name sounding more like an illness than a fun plant to have in the garden, the flowers keep producing two out of the one before it. Dr. Suess was surely inspired by plants like this.
Avocado leaf, heart-shaped caterpillar munch, the most recent addition to the Heart Shapes in Nature series.
A show of red pops against the weathered dead branches and late summer foliage in the canyons of northern Arizona. I didn’t notice that it was heart-shaped until sorting out photos this week.
During winter the Avocado leaves become very crisp, and when crumbled in the hands the scent is kind of like licorice.
Sun setting already at 3: 49 p.m. See other posts of this same sky-tree view in our back yard, Lewisville, TX