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Desert Plants

by Gary Lyons

"Curator and author Gary Lyons celebrates the C's 100-year-old collection of desert plants in this 128-page book filled with facts and photographs. In these pages you'll meet boojum trees from Baja California, creeping devils and old man cactus from Mexico, and a rare plant called welwitschia from Namibia, among the 3,000 species now growing in the twelve-acre garden."--book jacket.