Apparently it's not a very big place - I missed the exact dimensions - but plants abound here. While there are apparently around 1,400 native 'higher' plants in the UK, Popoluca has 2,700 and is a tropical montane cloud forest (are there lovelier words in the English language?) and a semi-dry oak forest. Sadly this doesn't really mean anything to me as I don't have enough knowledge to discriminate among the different types of forest but it all sounds lovely.

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"Every old person that dies is like a library burned down"

I've got mixed feelings about blogs - there's a nice Private Eye cartoon of someone "updating his blog" and can be seen at his screen typing "me, me, me, me, me" but even though it's a bit of a vanity project I thought I'd weigh in with 'what I did recently'.

As some people may know, I have a passing interest in the use of plants in medicines - more of a dilettante

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