Purplish Prickly Pear
Found only within the greater Big Bend Region, this prickly pear can be vibrant green during wet times, or deep magenta during colder months or dry times. Yellow flowers with red centers will bloom from April to July. This one was photographed
in Big Bend National Park in Western Texas.
- Copyright
- ©2015
- Image Size
- 6000x4000 / 17.7MB
- Keywords
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Angiosperms, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Cactaceae, Caryophyllales, Chihuahuan Desert, Core eudicots, Eudicots, O. azurea, Opuntia, Opuntia azurea, Opuntia azurea var. diplopurpurea, Opuntia phaeacantha, Plantae, Texas, arid, botany, cacti, cactus, coyotillo, desert, dicot, flora, green, heat, hurt, nature, nopal, nopal coyotillo, pad, pain, painful, plant, poke, prickle, prickly, prickly pear, purple, purplish prickly pear, red, sharp, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, succulent, thorn, thorny, west, western, wild, yellow, Chiricahua, Chiricahua Desert, Chiricahuan, desert, Big Bend National Park, National Park, NP, BBNP, Chiricahuan Desert
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- Opuntieae
