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December 12, 2006 : Joshua Tree National Park

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Keywords: Agavaceae | Yucca brevifolia Schott ex Torr. | Joshua Tree National Park, California

Joshua Tree National Park

One of four US National Parks (+ 1 US Nat'l Monument) named after plants, the roughly 800 000 acres (324 000 ha) of Joshua Tree National Park is solely located in southern California. Despite its size, that's less than 1 acre for each annual visitor – 1.25 million. Many of the visitors are photographers, and the body of photographs for this place reminds me of a question asked by Guy Tal in his essay: “Does the World Need Another Aspen Image?” (applied to the Joshua trees, of course).

Excellent descriptions of Yucca brevifolia can be found in the Flora of North America and Wikipedia.

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at December 12, 2006 6:16 AM

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i've never seen live, interesting form

Posted by: rupi at December 12, 2006 7:35 AM

I've been to Joshua Tree a few times and it just begs to be photographed. Certainly beautiful country down there.

Posted by: Jando at December 12, 2006 7:58 AM

Hmm, can I guess the four parks?

[ think ... stop thinking ... look up list ... ]

nope, I got two parks and the monument. Had to look up the other two.

Posted by: Ben M at December 12, 2006 11:10 AM

Those interested in Joshua trees might like this article by Chris Clarke:

http://faultline.org/index.php/site/comments/joshua_trees_and_extinction/

(He includes a series of reference links in a post soon after that one.)

Posted by: Bill at December 12, 2006 10:29 PM

It's so good to see a photo of one of my favorite plants! I grew up on a Mohave Desert ranch with a Joshua Tree in the front yard. The tree had many more branches than the ones in the above photo. It also had a partially hollow trunk that ground squirrels (we called Chipmunks) often nested in. Way back then, Joshua Trees were part of the Lily family.

Posted by: Janet A. at December 12, 2007 11:02 AM

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