Strawberry Pitaya
This fantastically beautiful and very long-spined cactus found in the Chihuahuan Desert of Texas and Arizona in the United States, and in the Mexican states of Coahuila, Chihuahua, and Nuevo León. It gets its species name (stramineus - which means made of straw) from the way these thick, brittle spines resemble dried straw. Clumps of 100 or more stems are not uncommon, and when they are in flower, it is one of the most spectacular of all of the Chihuahuan cacti! This one was photographed in Western Texas in Big Bend National Park.
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Angiosperms, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Cactaceae, Caryophyllales, Chihuahuan Desert, E. stramineus, Echinocereus, Echinocereus enneacanthus var. stramineus, Echinocereus stramineus, Eudicots, Pachycereeae, Plantae, Texas, arid, beautiful, beauty, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, botany, bud, cacti, cactus, color, desert, dicot, flora, flower, flowers, fresh, green, heat, hot pink, hurt, magenta, native, natural, nature, pain, painful, perennial, pink, pitaya, plant, plants, poke, porcupine hedgehog cactus, prickle, prickly, purple, sharp, shrub, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, straw-color hedgehog, strawberry, strawberry cactus, strawberry hedgehog, strawberry hedgehog cactus, strawberry pitaya, succulent, thorn, thorny, west, western, wild, wildflower, wildflowers, Chiricahua, Chiricahua Desert, Chiricahuan, desert, Big Bend National Park, National Park, NP, BBNP, Chiricahuan Desert
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