Amulet with an animistic guardian—a gargoyle—watching over a nature-cast baobab-shaped thorn of Monadenium spectabile, a rare succulent plant endemic to Tanzania. With its diamond-set and gold-painted collar, the gargoyle becomes the chapiter of the rock crystal column housing the thorn and the diamond studded meander upon which it stands. The column base is an entwined knot of tree branches. One of a kind.