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Mammillaria cactus in bloom displays its delicate pink flowers with golden-yellow centers, creating a striking crown around the spiny stem.
green cholla Cactus in bloom Hemenway Park Boulder City Nevada
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A purple prickly pear, as it happens, the Santa Rita Prickly Pear... seen a few miles from the Santa Rita Mountains.
Green Valley, Arizona. April, 2025.
In my garden. La Ceja, Colombia.
The scientific name for the plant is "Cryptocereus anthonyanus" (syn. "Selenicereus anthonyanus"), and is a member of the night blooming cactus family. Best known for its long, arching stems coated with serrated leaf nodes, fishbone cactus is found in its habitat in groups, which hang from trees. The plant originates in Mexico, where tropical rainforests create a moist, humid environment.
Rarely the plant will bloom with soft pink flowers that open at night and last only one day. Ric-Rac cactus houseplant enjoys similar growing conditions as its cousin, the orchid.
www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/cacti-succulents/fish...
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9. Joseph’s Coat Rose After The Rain, 10. Anemone In My March Garden, 11. Meyer Lemon In February, 12. Tucson Summer Monsoon Sunset, 13. My World At Night, 14. Golden Hour Sunset In Tucson, 15. I Miss Ruthie, 16. Having Fun Shooting Tonight’s Moon,
17. Joseph’s Coat Rose At My Front Door (In Explore), 18. The Moon and Venus Yesterday, 19. Saguaro Cactus In Bloom, 20. Rose Bouquet, 21. Pink Begonia Under Lights, 22. Sunset At The Lake, 23. Tonight’s Waxing Gibbous Moon Has 83% Solar Illumination Is In Explore, 24. Waning Crescent Moon - 40% Solar Illuminated,
25. Tonight’s Half Moon, 26. A Walk In The Woods, 27. Sunday Cannas Sky Dawn, 28. Study In Blue, 29. Wired Dawn, 30. Dipped In Wine Coleus, 31. Oh My Aching Back‼️, 32. Fruit Drink,
33. The Stages Of Life, 34. Sunlight, Colors, Patterns. and Textures, 35. Ballston Beach, Truro. After the Blizzard of 22, 36. Pink And White Rose, 37. Happy Landings On The Moon, 38. Joseph's Coat Rose Greets The Evening, 39. East River Bridges, 40. Colors, Light, and Shadows,
41. Sunset, 42. Rose Portraits, 43. Japanese Cherry Blossoms, 44. Happy Raindrops, 45. The American Southwest Stands With Ukraine, 46. The American Southwest Stands With Ukraine, 47. Four Tangerines And A Grapefruit, 48. Sailboats On The Charles,
49. Orchid On The Moon, 50. Red and Gray, 51. Sunday Cannas Sky Dawn, 52. Rain Man, 53. Cityscape Reflection, 54. Hunter’s Waxing Gibbous Moon-97% Illumination, 55. Nested Stars Of David, 56. Tekiah Gehdola With Butterfly,
57. Classic Water Tower Near A Runway, 58. Think Orange Canna!, 59. Appproaching Rainstorm, 60. Last Evening’s Summer Monsoon Full Rainbow, 61. Sunday Beautiful Woman's Portrait and My Selfie, 62. Petal Paradise, 63. Last Night’s Waxing Crescent Moon Through Smog and Haze, 64. Tonight’s Waxing Gibbous Moon <\|/> In Explore,
65. Miss Ruth Alertly Resting, 66. Bishops Cap Cactus Flowers, 67. This Morning’s Waning Gibbous Moon, 68. I Miss Boston!!!! Dusty Button In The Boston Ballet Company Class Part of Boston Ballet Company's 50th Anniversary Alumni Reunion Onstage At The Boston Opera House In Flickr's Explo, 69. Keeping Warm Color Dance, 70. Brown On Blue, 71. Pink and Magenta Rosebud In Deep Shade, 72. Pink And Cream Tea Rose
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A barrel cactus in bloom following the summer rains
- Phoenix Mountains Preserve, Arizona
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Ocotillo Cactus in bloom and Saguaro Cacti in the background. Santa Catalina Foothills near Tucson, Arizona.
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Today's blooms--there were five of them. Tomorrow I think there will be 4 new ones. Unfortunately, the ones you see in bloom today will be gone tomorrow.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Near the summit of White Butte I found this cluster of prickly pear cactus in bloom.
Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, Comanche County, Oklahoma.
The granite in these boulders has stood watch over the Wichita Mountains of southwestern Oklahoma since their formation began hundreds of millions of years ago. Today the boulders sit at the top of Mount Scott, overlooking tens of thousands of acres of high quality prairie and oak woodlands that harbor an abundance of wildlife, including large herds of bison and elk that were reintroduced over a hundred years ago.
Carolina and I recently visited the refuge with our good friends James Childress and his wife Erin. This evening the light and the sky were amazing after the dense cloud cover that had lingered late into the afternoon began to break up. By the time we reached the top of Mount Scott the pink in the clouds had all but vanished, but the soft light of dusk painted the lichen-laden boulders and gnarled junipers in a lovely light. Though these peaks aren't extreme in altitude, relentless winds and other climatic extremes stunt tree growth, and the junipers and oaks that occur here are akin to krummholz forms seen in higher mountain ranges.
The Wichita Mountains definitely left an impression on me. I look forward to many return visits throughout the seasons. In spring I hope to see the lace cactus in bloom and listen to the music of breeding songbirds. In the summer and fall perhaps I might catch a glimpse of rutting bison, elk or white-tailed deer. If you haven't yet visited this unique refuge, I recommend you make the trip, and catch a glimpse of the mixed-grass prairies of the central states much as they were before they were forever changed.
Thursday, 5 March 2020: our temperature late this morning is -1C (windchill -5C). Overcast. Sunrise is at 7:10 am, and sunset is at 6:25 pm.
The 12 photos that I have posted today are the remaining ones that were taken towards the end of Day 10 of our 13-day birding trip to South Texas in March 2019. Next time, it is on to Day 11, a day full of more birds at the Birding and Nature Centre, plus other things. After that, not many photos from Day 12, and then Day 13 was our travel day back to Alberta. Maybe I will actually get Texas finished - about a year after we were there, lol.
The Birding and Nature Centre on South Padre Island was our last stop of the day, made because we found we had time to call in. We spent about two hours there on this first visit, seeing 29 species of bird. As usual, I did not see every one of these on the list. The following morning, we returned for our planned visit. This is such an amazing place to visit!
www.theworldbirdingcenter.com/Spi.html
This day started off with leaving the hotel that we had driven to on Day 9, the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, Brownsville, and driving to the first stopping place for Day 10. We stayed at this hotel for three nights, before having to drive all the way back to Houston on 30 March, ready to fly back home to Calgary.
Our early morning drive on Day 10 started off with driving in the wrong direction for quite a distance. One fun thing that happened as a result of this mistake, was that we spotted two beautiful Agave plants growing on either side of someone's front gate. We stopped in awe at the gorgeous orange flowers that grew from the tip of each leaf spike. I had never seen anything like these before and, once I got back to Calgary, I searched and searched on Google Images for photos that would give me an ID for these plants. Nothing - absolutely nothing - so I thought they must be something really unusual. Indeed, they were, lol! Some time after our return home, Anne B sent an email saying, guess what, these flowers were fake! She had looked at a close-up and could see the fabric lines and some frayed edges. A fun memory.
Once we were heading in the right direction, we drove east from Brownsville to Boca Chica, which is on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The first bird we saw was a Meadowlark, perched on top of a Yucca plant along the Boca Chica Highway. Closer to Boca Chica Beach, there were police vehicles, and at one place we were stopped by two men. One told us we could not go any further, but the second man told us we could go on. Managed to get a couple of very quick photos of Laughing Gulls on the beach, and then we were told to leave. Apparently, there was going to be some test at the nearby SpaceX Space Launch Facility there. We were able to grab a couple of quick shots of the SpaceX prototype from the road, then quickly continued on our drive away from the area. Quite exciting.
"The SpaceX South Texas Launch Site is a spaceport and test at Boca Chica Village near Brownsville, Texas, for the private use of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX).
Its stated purpose is "to provide SpaceX an exclusive launch site that would allow the company to accommodate its launch manifest and meet tight launch windows." The launch site was originally intended to support launches of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles as well as "a variety of reusable suborbital launch vehicles",[4] but in 2018, SpaceX announced a change of plans, stating that the site would be used exclusively for SpaceX Starship. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk indicated in 2014 that he expected "commercial astronauts, private astronauts, to be departing from South Texas," and he foresaw launching spacecraft to Mars from there."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_South_Texas_Launch_Site
From Boca Chica, our next stopping place was the Sabal Palm Sanctuary. On the way there, we briefly stopped to take a few photos of a beautiful Harris's Hawk perched on a high wire. In order to get to the Sanctuary, we had to drive through an opening in "The Wall". I had really been hoping that, at some point, we would actually see a length of The Wall, having heard about it endlessly on TV.
"The Sabal Palm Sanctuary is a 557-acre (225-hectare) nature reserve and bird sanctuary located in the delta of the Rio Grande Valley in Cameron County near Brownsville, Texas. It is noted for being one of the last locations in the Rio Grande Valley with a profuse grove of sabal palms, an edible-heart-bearing palm much prized by pre-Hispanic inhabitants and noted by early explorers. As a relatively habitat-rich remnant of this Valley, it is a prized birdwatching and butterfly watching location for persons interested in the ecology of the Valley and adjacent states of northern Mexico.
The Sabal Palm Sanctuary closely approaches the southernmost point in the state of Texas, and is the southernmost point accessible to the public.
The Sanctuary occupies a parcel of the former Rabb Plantation, a 19th-century sugarcane plantation on the bank of the Rio Grande - at that time, a river deep enough to float light steamboats. The plantation's produce was shipped directly from the riverbank; the successful plantation's Queen Anne mansion, built by Frank and Lillian Rabb in 1891-1892, was adaptively remodeled in 2013 to serve as the Sanctuary's visitor center." From Wikipedia. The Mansion is a really fine building.
Sandy Hook, NJ
The eastern prickly pear cactus is the only native cactus found in the northeast and is abundant along the sunny, sandy habitats throughout Gateway National Recreation Area. I found this cactus growing near a hiking trail at Sandy Hook, NJ.
Over the last several years, I've uploaded numerous photos of this Cereus cactus in bloom in a sunny spot in my yard. This, I think, is one of the better ones.
Walking Stick or Cane Cholla (Source: www.nps.gov/band/historyculture/native-plant-use.htm)
People often mistake the yellowish-green fruit of this plant with the plant's flower bud. However, if you ever saw the cactus in bloom with its bright pink flowers the difference would be obvious. Historically cholla was considered a famine food, eaten only when food was especially scarce. However, during prehistoric times it is likely cholla was a food staple. The fruit could be eaten raw or dried for use during the winter. The stalks could be eaten once the thorns were removed. Cholla buds are rich in calcium. Amazingly, a two tablespoon serving contains only a few calories but as much calcium as a glass of milk. Milk was not available to Ancestral Pueblo people beyond infancy.
Thelocactus bicolor -- I've been wanting to see this cactus in bloom for many years and here it is! Infrequent even in its preferred habitat, it has been made even rarer by unscrupulous cactus thieves who sell them to collectors who prize them highly.