Unlike true spinach, Malabar spinach is a summer salad; this jungle vine gains strength as the temperature rises. It’s strong to the finish. Malabar spinach ( Basella alba ) starts a little ...

'Jungle Book': Lessons Swing From the Vines. October 5, 2007. By Celia Wren. Atried-and-true motif of children's theater -- that it's okay to be different -- gets an exotic twist in Imagination ...

Cycad, bamboo, croton, palms, ficus, ferns, climbing schefflera and Chinese evergreens are among the plants growing in the exhibit, where jungle-like temperatures and humidity cause plants to grow ...