By Alyssa Fuentes Triadica sebifera I have always said that if the walls of my childhood home could talk, I would die to maintain their silence. There is something both profound and profoundly embarrassing about facing down a place that has seen you every day of your life, from fresh out of the hospital to […]

Aesculus Californica (Spach) Nutt By Lauren Pitzer I didn’t really know anything about the California Buckeye at first. All I knew was that when I stared out the window in quarantine isolation on campus at Stanford, it was always there. Since the pandemic first toppled campus life back in March, I had quite an adventure […]

Quercus agrifolia By Brennecke Gale When I first set out to tackle this project, I felt at once wildly excited to for the opportunity to really get to know a tree of my own choosing, and incredibly overwhelmed by the choice itself. I found myself rooting through the memory of two and a half years […]

We had been hanging out together off and on for nearly three years before I learned anything about D.R.’s backstory. Even then, I had to hear it from my botany professor, because D.R. was scrupulous about keeping secrets. The way my botany professor told it, D.R. was dead, and everyone knew it. That is, until […]