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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.
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 dÃas, asi que estabamos encantados de poder haber visto uno en flor!
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.
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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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.