Mojave Mound Cactus
Still a small cluster of Mojave mound cacti, this grey-green species of barrel cactus with their distinctive dusty pink spines normally is found in clumps of 20-40 stems. Also known as a cottontop cactus (you can see what appears to be a ball of cotton at the top of each one), in June or July in the hottest part of the desert summer, a bright yellow blossom will flower. These were found and photographed while I was searching for some shade in the Mojave desert.
- Copyright
- © 2013
- Image Size
- 3916x2601 / 8.3MB
- Keywords
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America, American Southwest, Angiosperms, Cactaceae, Cacteae, California, Caryophyllales, Core eudicots, E. polycephalus, Echinocactus, Echinocactus polycephalus, Echinocactus polycephalus var. polycephalus, Eudicots, Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave Mound Cactus, Mojave Desert, National Park, Plantae, Riverside County, San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, SoCal, Sonoran Desert, Twentynine Palms, USA, United States, arid, barrel, botany, cacti, cottontop, cottontop cactus, desert, dicot, flora, green, heat, hurt, many-headed barrel, nature, pain, painful, perennial, poke, prickle, prickly, sharp, shrub, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, succulent, thorn, thorny, west, western, wild
- Contained in galleries
- Cactaceae (Cactus Family), Cacteae
