Teddybear Cholla
It's been discoved that these highly-dense covering of pale spines not only deter animals from eating it, but also reflect heat, keeping the cactus cool and shaded at the same time.
- Copyright
- © 2013
- Image Size
- 4288x2848 / 5.8MB
- 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
- Yellow Wildflowers, Cylindropuntieae, Cactaceae (Cactus Family)
