A succulent discovered in Mexico more than 20 years ago by San Diego State University botany students may look small, but its name evokes a towering figure in music.
Mark Dodero, a senior biologist with the environmental consulting firm Recon, was listening to Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Child while driving with fellow students Kim Marsden and Scott and Brenda McMillan in 1995 when they pulled over to investigate a mesa in the Colonel Peninsula, about 113km south of Ensenada.
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