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
Petey jabbers about cool plants and critters found in the grassland near his home, but finally hones in on a climbing milkweed vine called...
I arrived in Tucson, Arizona in the fall of 1967 to attend the U of A. Up to that point I had been born...
It was Carl Linnaeus, the king of binomial nomenclature, who decided to use the classical Latin name fraxinus as the genus for ash trees....
