Teddybear Cholla
This young(er) teddybear cholla in Joshua Tree National Park is still mostly covered with fresh spines, all pale, dense, and waiting for a passerby to touch it, enabling a piece to be broken off and carried off to start another plant as soon as it touched the ground. I was unfortunate enough to have a piece stuck to my bare calf, then had my hand stuck to it as I tried to pull it off of me. It was shockingly painful, much more so than any other California cactus I happened to get pricked by.
- Copyright
- © 2013
- Image Size
- 4288x2848 / 9.4MB
- Keywords
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America, American Southwest, Angiosperms, C. bigelovii, Cactaceae, California, Caryophyllales, Cholla Guera, Choya Güera, Core eudicots, Cylindropuntia, Cylindropuntia bigelovii, Eudicots, Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave Desert, National Park, National Park Joshua Tree National Park, Opuntia, Opuntia bigelovii, Opuntia bigelovii var. ciribe, Opuntia ciribe, Plantae, Riverside County, San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, Silver Cholla, SoCal, Sonoran Desert, Teddybear Cholla, Twentynine Palms, USA, United States, arid, botany, cacti, cholla, choya, desert, dicot, flora, green, heat, hurt, jumping cholla, nature, pain, painful, perennial, plant, poke, prickle, prickly, sharp, shrub, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, subshrub, succulent, teddy-bear cholla, teddybear, thorn, thorny, west, western, wild
- Contained in galleries
- Cylindropuntieae, Cactaceae (Cactus Family)
