When I initially wrote this story I was using Lyman Benson’s The Cactus of Arizona as my reference and the queen of the night...
When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who...
The genus is now Hesperocyparis, but back in the olden days I learned the rough bark Arizona cypress of southeastern Arizona as Cupressus arizonica...