“The disappearance of this ornate, almost luminous flower went unnoticed as cattle trampled our desert grasslands into a struggling remnant of what they once were,” said Michael Robinson, a senior ...

The desert rose is a succulent prized for its thick trunk, delicate foliage, and trumpet-shaped flowers in shades of deep […] ...

It was one that Ben had been waiting a long time to study - a wild flower bloom. This could be the first in these dunes for decades. A rare snowfall in the Sonoran desert, January 2019.