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U2's Joshua Tree was the wrong kind of yucca

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The title of U2's legendary album 'The Joshua Tree' evokes sweeping American landscapes, but the iconic solitary tree photographed for the cover isn't actually a Joshua Tree. It is a completely different species of yucca that just looked incredibly poetic in monochrome. It is a beautiful geographical inaccuracy permanently burned into rock history.

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