still learning

still learning

i am here to confirm that if you have lived in a northern climate for your whole life, it is embarrassingly easy to make ridiculously naive mistakes while identifying tropical and temperate plants for the first time. as an example, i picked this mimosa branch yesterday, with much excitement, only to find out that i had picked a pepper tree branch, not a mimosa.

false pepper tree leaves and berries (Schinus molle)

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