Xerophile: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed (Revised Edition) XERO This plant from the highlands

This plant from the highlands of central Mexico needs no introduction

has made Astrophytum myriostigma into something that nature never thought possible

that are pollinated by bats in Brazil

loose rubber bands

Xerophile: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed (Revised Edition) XERO This plant from the highlandsA 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