Found this strange beauty at the wonderful Desert Botanical Gardens here in Phoenix. I’d never heard of a Boojum Tree before. I love this thing so much.
The Boojum tree.
In Isabel’s words, “it’s like a cactus that decided to be a tree.”
Archived Post
This post is archived from my Posterous blog, which shut down in 2012. Some posts have been edited slightly to fix typographical errors, correctly represent the gender of some individuals, and remove unnecessarily-gendered language. You can view the full archive here.