Mala Mujer in the Mules

August 15, 2026 • 00:04:27
Mala Mujer in the Mules
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Mala Mujer in the Mules

Aug 15 2026 | 00:04:27

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Show Notes

I’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson over 30 years ago. And I’m also pretty sure that I turned that encounter into an episode of Growing Native and I mispronounced the genus Cnidoscolus. “The C is silent,” my botanist/horticulturist friend Gene Joeseph gently told me. Where would I be without friends like that, right? Well anyway, here is a newer episode of Growing Native from another encounter with mala mujer, but in the Mule Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona.                     …

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