Boyce Thompson Arboretum |
Fendler's Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus fendleri)
On a sunny day in April, while the leaves of eastern trees remain in their buds and a cold storm sweeps the Great Plains, in central Arizona the temperature rises effortlessly to eighty, a portent of things to come. A parking lot shaded by mesquites, a table of cacti and succulents, offered for purchase near the entrance building, serve as reminders that this is a desert environment, where plants and animals are endowed with adaptations not required in wetter climes, and where survival is less than assured in this exotic, starkly beautiful land.
Boyce Thompson Arboretum
Agave victoria-reginae - Queen Victoria's Agave
37615 U.S. Highway 60
Superior, AZ 85173
www./arboretum.ag.arizona.edu
An admission fee is charged
Established 1925
320 acres. Over 3,200 taxa
USDA Hardiness Zone 10B
Sunset Zone 17
Visitor Center, Gift Shop
Superior, AZ 85173
www./arboretum.ag.arizona.edu
An admission fee is charged
Established 1925
320 acres. Over 3,200 taxa
USDA Hardiness Zone 10B
Sunset Zone 17
Visitor Center, Gift Shop