Shrine for the Desert Box Turtle

Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

Aug 19 2025 | 00:04:18

00:00 / 00:04:18

Show Notes

The better common name for Terrapene ornata luteola is the ornate box turtle. The name desert box turtle is old like me….not Miocene old…maybe early Holocene. Hey, I recently read some nice essays about shrines in the borderlands written by the Tucson desert rat and artist Linda Victoria. Below is a link to her writing. https://substack.com/@lacorua The photos are mine. Oh, and I’ve talked about box turtles before, so here is a link to another episode: Turtles, Dogs, Plants

Other Episodes

Episode 0

July 25, 2022 • 00:04:30

Mala Mujer in the Mules

I’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson around 30 years ago. I...

Episode 0

March 28, 2026 • 00:03:40

Coral Bean in the Borderlands

If it wasn’t for the Gadsden Purchase, coral bean or Erythrina flabelliformis wouldn’t be found in southeastern Arizona or southwestern New Mexico and so...

Episode

June 17, 2024 • 00:04:34

Petey Does Mimosas

It was Linnaeus that created the name Mimosa from the Greek: mimos for mime and the suffix osa for resembling. And as to the...