A cactus named for a best friendSourced
They found a new cactus together.
One friend's name stayed on it.
American horticulturist Bob Foster and his friend Charlie Glass made 15 plant-hunting trips to Mexico between 1964 and 1974. A cactus they identified in 1968 was named Mammillaria glassii in Glass's honor.
Their friendship
entered botanical naming.
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