@futurebird
I was going to say something clever but I ended up reading about the Boojum Tree

named after an undescribed creature in a strange whimsical poem, holotype destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, lives in a weird corner of a weird peninsular desert, grows extremely slowly, menanced by tropical storms ...

Fouquieria columnaris - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

@llewelly

The tree is trying to live the cactus lifestyle???

@futurebird

Yes, but can you identify snark?

arXiv vs. snarXiv

(snarxiv.org)

@futurebird @llewelly they had one at the new york botanical gardens (futurbird, please check to see if still there?) i used to always take the kids on tours to see it. probly read some of the lewis carol to them.

@KrajciTom

This is TERRIBILARIOUS
I'm doing better than chance but not much better

@futurebird

@trochee @KrajciTom

I'm doing worse than chance hard enough someone should be shorting me and getting rich.

@futurebird there's practically no fossil record of cacti, but DNA-based divergence time studies estimate they've been around for at least 30 million years, and some studies estimate maybe 66 or even 90 million years.