Cactus in Bloom

Christmas Cactus in bloom

Horse-crippler cactus in bloom in Wilbarger Co., TX.

Blooming desert cactus in Joshua Tree National Park, California.

Media: Pastel. Price: $225.00. Show: Celebrate the Art of Making. Dates: March 27 - April 26, 2009. Curators: Michele Reday Cook and Betsy Mead. Location: Del Ray Artisans gallery at the Nicholas A. Colasanto Center, 2704 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22301.

Cactus in bloom at Bach's Cactus Nursery, Tucson, AZ.

This is a spring bloomer called......

They have many different colors of blooms.

Cholla cactus in bloom, we've descended out of the ponderosa forest into a drier, warmer biome. We'll drop over 2000 feet on these switchbacks.

Mostly barrel cactus in bloom, plus a couple of saguaros.

Christmas Cactus in bloom on my back deck...created nice shadows against the wall.

Overhead view of Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus in bloom, with pink magenta flowers, in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, in the Colorado Desert, San Diego County, California.

Happens quite rarely, maybe once every two years. And the blossom only lasts one night.

Three day backpack to Neon and Choprock canyons along the Escalante River. For more of the story, please visit us at: www.evansoutdooradventures.com/?p=3564

Found some cactus in bloom in Casa Grande, Arizona.

Pincushion cactus

Sabino Canyon, AZ

Photo By: Ned Harris

Cactus in bloom, Spring 2005, in slightly disturbed desert between Rosamond and Mojave, California

Schlumbergera sp. (Christmas cactus) in bloom, Dec 2011

Prickley Pear cactus in bloom

The Beavertail Cactus - Opuntia basilaris - is found in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts of southeastern California, southwestern Utah and western Arizona.

Reference www.desertusa.com/april96/du_beavtail.html

This beavertail cactus in bloom was found near Ocatillo Wells in Anza Borrego State Park.

Neighbor's yard, Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA.

My cactus in bloom.

This remarkable cactus appears to be a pile of rounded pebbles which magically are sprouting flowers!

I have been waiting for these to bloom for a few weeks now. I was afraid I'd already missed them while I was on vacation. Last year I was out at the Braidwood Dunes and Savanna Nature Preserve and they had already bloomed and I was too late. Common Prickly Pear, or Plains Cactus, Opuntia macrorhiza.

Saguaro cactus in bloom, done with somewhat surreal colors.

Canon EOS-60D, 3 image HDR.

Jt is a very special place to me, this was one of the last times I was there this April. The Ocotillo were blooming - it was incredilbe.

Taken 2006 Cactus flowers in bloom with Tippy guarding the precious beauties.

Prickly Pear Cactus in Bloom

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Three day backpack to Neon and Choprock canyons along the Escalante River. For more of the story, please visit us at: www.evansoutdooradventures.com/?p=3564

My cactus in bloom.

Barrel Cactus in bloom.

Cactus in bloom, Joshua Tree National Monument.

Seen on the grounds of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA on May 31, 2013. It was lovely to see cactus in bloom!

Those thorns on this Thumb Cactus may be little, but they have a fish hook shaped barb that HURTS when it gets under your skin.

Our Christmas cactus put out a bloom, so, naturally, I had to haul out the 105mm f/2.8 AI Micro-Nikkor lens and tripod!

Borrego Springs, California

Cactus in bloom on this Eastern Shore barrier island