No need to travel somewhere exotic to see these, well other than to Caroline’s office where they are growing next to the TPC Scottsdale golf course.  You are looking at desert ironwood seed pods and I’m just learning that they are edible, albeit slightly toxic. You can guess what this means, I’ll be harvesting some of them later today and doing my best to boil off some of their toxins so we can try an old indigenous food that isn’t apparently eaten very often anymore. As I write this trying to convince myself that I’ve identified them correctly, I’m having doubts because the videos of people harvesting them are working with much smaller pods. I obviously don’t want to poison Caroline and I so I’m going to have to figure out how to find certainty regarding what species these come from.