Frailejones are oversized members of the sunflower family with thick stems and crowns of pointed, hairy leaves. Shrouded in the mists of cold, wet, nearly treeless tropical highlands called páramos, they evoke the Spanish monks for which they are named. Mauricio Diazgranados, the new chief science officer of the New York Botanical Garden, had his … Continue reading Mauricio Diazgranados Is a Botanist in a Hurry