Teddybear Cholla
Early April in the Joshua Tree National Park is a great time for photographing blooming cacti. Some parts of the Mojave contain vast groves of certain species, such as this teddybear cholla, which will seemingly burst into flower all at once, creating a brightly colorful paradise in the middle of the desert.
- Copyright
- © 2013
- Image Size
- 4288x2848 / 4.5MB
- 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)
