See NPR: Meet the ‘wooly devil,’ a new plant species discovered in Big Bend National Park. iNaturalist is mentioned in the article.
A photo and caption from the article:
What?!?!?! That plant looks very weird.
if you think that looks weird, you’ll be amazed at the stunning diversity of the thousands of other plant species out there that don’t look like generic plants :)
Why do you keep replying to my stuff and how do you keep finding me?
Big Bend is an awesome place, by far my favorite place in Texas while I was living there. So much habitat and wildlife diversity. And so much vast remote space in the park that it’s no surprise new things are still being discovered there.
As for weird plants out there, probably the weirdest (and one of the coolest) I’ve seen at Big Bend is the Living Rock Cactus. They’re very hard to spot until you see the first one in an area that has them, and then when you have the image in your head you start seeing them all around the area
I didn’t mean to make you paranoid, I’m an active user on this forum, I tend to read most posts on here, and you are one of the many people I reply to. I can avoid ever replying to you in the future if you would prefer?
Original observation here for more of the back story:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/201523798
Okay but I wasn’t reallly paranoid.
