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My favorite Mammillaria cactus in bloom.

Wonderful light-colored cactus with white spines laying against the cactus, and darker central spines which stick out and curve like an eyelash. The dark spines have a sort of poison, though, and it will continue to hurt for days after you're stuck.

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Cactus in bloom

Prickly Pear Cactus, in Bloom by shootmathers

Cactus in Bloom by milligeo

Cactus in Bloom

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Heidy in front of a Saguaro cactus in bloom. The trees bloom only once a year for a few days, so it was quite exciting to see!

Heidy frente a un cactus Saguaro en flor. Este tipo de cactus solo florece una vez al año por unos pocos días, asi que estabamos encantados de poder haber visto uno en flor!

Cactus in bloom. Who'd have imagined all this rain would make them smile? . . . #headwaterslife #hayscounty #hill_country #cactus #flowersbloom by Marcia Conner

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2014.05.07 Cactus in bloom by Ruth Anne Taves

Hedghog Cactus in bloom by Jen

It's way too early for most #cactusblossoms, of course, but if you look closely enough, you can spot a few small #cactus in bloom, such as this small cluster of #mammillaria pottsii from Northern Mexico. There were rings of these tiny blossoms that were n by lojo2photos

prickly pear cactus in bloom by SARAH VAN GEE

Cactus in bloom. by Gary Schotel

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Pear Cactus

Christmas cactus in bloom by blossomsnapper

B&W macro of a Christmas cactus, stamen & pistils

cuddly by paper_nomad

A cactus in bloom in Joshua Tree National Park, CA.

Saguaro cactus in bloom by Terry Burnett Gaume

Blooming by Vern Kirkman

Cactus in bloom.

cactus in bloom, joshua tree national park by sparkle glowplug

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Torch cactus in bloom

cactus in bloom by Tara Weidenhammer

Texas claret cup cactus by Lance Lewey

Texas claret cup cactus in bloom at the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute, Fort Davis, Texas

Yet another Beavertail Cactus in bloom. by Jenny

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Saguaro cactus in bloom. by kn2y

All the blooms are 20 or more feet in the top of the cactus. Sometimes you get lucky and find one on the lower side of the road as I did here.

Christmas cactus in bloom by Marzenka101

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CactusFlowers-37 by Elmer Cat

Cactus in bloom with beautifiul yellow flowers in Venus, Florida.

cactus in bloom, joshua tree nat. park by sparkle glowplug

Vaughn Cactus by Donald Paskewitz

Cactus in bloom snapped while railfanning the BNSF-UP crossing at Vaughn NM

Ocotillo cactus (in bloom) - Kartchener Caverns Garden Benson AZ by Janet

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Cactus in bloom in the rock garden outside my front door.

Barrel Cactus in Bloom by tom janca

I like to find these barrel cacti, east of Superior AZ before you get to Ray . I find the best blossoms in august after the summer rains begin. copyright Tom Stanley Janca.

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Lot's of cactus in bloom by Sean Brady

Christmas Cactus in bloom by GAC'63

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cactus in bloom by Irene Hammond

Saguaro Cactus in bloom, Surprise AZ by Marie Beschen

Blooms in the Desert by Clint Midwestwood

We happened to time our visit so that a ton of the cactus were in bloom. This surprised me, as we'd seen a lot of cactus in bloom during last year's trip, when we'd come to the Four Corners region about a month earlier. We expected to have missed all of this year's blooms ... but then, it occurs to me as I write this that we were about 200 miles farther north this year than last, and a month's difference in the timing of the blooms might make sense.

As an Easterner, I'm going to say this is a prickly pear bloom. It might be something else completely, but to an Easterner all cactuses are prickly pears.

Cactus in bloom by mps_on