I Came to Bolivia to See the Sister Species to My Favorite Texas Plant

Description

Koeberlinia holacantha is a rare plant that's a relative of the plant in Texas and the Southwest known as "All Thorn" - Koeberlinia spinosa, which is a relative of mustards in the order Brassicales.

Here in the Inter-Andean valleys and dry forests of Bolivia at 5200' it grows in a thornscrub habitat similar to that of South Texas , with plants like Tecoma fulva, Pereskia diaz-romeroana, Neltuma species, and Neoraimondia herzogiana.