I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more about jojoba (Simmondsia chinesis) other than what you hear in this show, except that it is now in its own family, Simmondsiaceae, and not in the boxwood family. Oh, and I do love the story of how jojoba’s Latinized name came about and I’m glad I finally got to tell it. If you want a little more information on this very cool native shrub, below is a link to another show in which I jabber about jojoba.
All the photos are mine and were taken in the Dos Cabezas Mountains
Hummingbird trumpet has had quite a few botanical names and I’m still not sure that I got the current botanical right in this episode....
In the early 1990s when this story and song came about I was poking around the West Branch starting at Ajo Road and north...
Petey describes a stretch of road and beautiful plant found along the way.
