Turk's Head
This beautiful, long and curve-spined cactus is a small member of the barrel cactus family and is primarily found in the central Chihuahuan Desert near the Rio Grande. Barely reaching a height of twelve inches, this attractive and colorful cactus will produce large three-inch yellow flowers in the springtime. This three-inch beauty was found and photographed below the Chisos Mountains in Brewster County, Texas.
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Angiosperms, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Cactaceae, Cacteae, Caryophyllales, Chihuahuan Desert, Core eudicots, Echinocactus flexispinus, Echinocactus longihamatus gracilispinus, Echinocactus sinuatus, Eudicots, F. hamatacanthus, Ferocactus, Ferocactus hamatacanthus, Mexican fruit cactus, Plantae, Texas, Texas barrel cactus, Turk's head cactus, arid, barrel, biznaga-barril fostillona, biznaga-de-limilla, botany, cacti, cactus, desert, dicot, fishhook vactus, flora, giant fishhook cactus, green, heat, hurt, long spines, nature, pain, painful, perennial, pink, plant, poke, prickle, prickly, sharp, shrub, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, succulent, thorn, thorny, tobusch fishhook factus, turk's head, turk's-head barrel cactus, west, western, wild, Chiricahua, Chiricahua Desert, Chiricahuan, desert, Big Bend National Park, National Park, NP, BBNP, Chiricahuan Desert
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