Xerophile: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed (Revised Edition) Cold Hardy Astrophytum “star plant” asterias is

Astrophytum “star plant” asterias is arguably the cutest cactus in the multiverse

It took effect when the evaporated pee of Willy Wonka re-condensed into a few drops of pitty-rain to feed a parched population of extremophiles living on the existential-brink in the world's most arid desert habitat

and with scales composed of very fine interwoven hairs

SHIPPING ONLYPlants are individually boxed and ship bare root

offering shade to geckoes and a perch for the West Indian Woodpecker

Xerophile: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed (Revised Edition) Cold Hardy Astrophytum “star plant” asterias isA catalogue of wonders that most of us will never get to see in person. The New Yorker Finally back in print, Xerophile: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed brings together eighty years of plant pics from some of the worlds most remote habitats: a bizarre two leaved gymnosperm that lives for millennia in the deserts of Namibia, a succulent whose baneful sap is used by hunters to fell large game in Angola, cactus that populate the snow