Pencil Cholla
Although this pencil cholla was still months away from flowering, I photographed this one in Joshua Tree National Park to show the amazing detail and unual pattern on the stems just as the early morning sun washed across the desert..
- Copyright
- © 2013
- Image Size
- 4288x2848 / 6.9MB
- Keywords
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America, American Southwest, Angiosperms, C. ramosissima, Cactaceae, California, Caryophyllales, Core eudicots, Cylindropuntia, Cylindropuntia ramosissima, Eudicots, Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave Desert, National Park, Opuntia ramosissima, Plantae, Riverside County, San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, SoCal, Sonoran Desert, Twentynine Palms, USA, United States, arid, botany, branched pencil cholla, cacti, cholla, desert, diamond cholla, dicot, flora, green, heat, hurt, nature, pain, painful, pencil cholla, perennial, plant, poke, prickle, prickly, ramosissima, sharp, shrub, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, succulent, tasajo, thorn, thorny, west, western, wild
- Contained in galleries
- Cylindropuntieae
