The Joshua Trees had many suggested names (including Cabbage head) but the Mormons passing through the desert on their way to their promised land thought they looked like the biblical Joshua pointing out the way and that name stuck. They start out growing straight but when the top gets frozen, it blooms and then sends out two branches. They grow five inches in the first five years then 1/2 inch a year after that. That makes many of them hundreds of years old. They are the best indicator that you are in the Mojave.
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