If you have every heard people talking about the desert flowering, it is hard to work out whether this is just a figure of speech, or to what extent the desert actually flowers. Well here you can see pictures taken in the desert west of Tucson, some of these in the spring, and some taken in the summer.
Many people have seen Pricklypear cacti, but few have seen it like this:
Prickly Pear Flowers
Beautiful Flowers and tasty to eat!
An old dead Saguaro Cacti (pronounced Soo-Waro)
Saguaro in flower
Staghorn Cholla (Red Flower)
(pronounced Choy-ya)
Staghorn Cholla (Red Flower)
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Staghorn Cholla (Orange Flower)
Staghorn Cholla (Green Flower) There can be nothing to compare with a Barrel Cacti in the summer that is just begining to flower, showing an array of unopened buds surrounded by dangerously sharp hooked spines.
Barrel Cacti
Barrel Cacti - a bugs eye view
Beautiful Flowers but wicked spines! May 24th 2003 and I am staying with a friend who lives in Tucson. We decide to go for a day out visiting the Santa Rita Mountains, to discover nature and hopefully some cool air. On the way we drive past a plantation of Pecan trees, near Green Valley AZ. Maybe to some, pictures of a few trees isnt particulary exciting, but here are some pictures anyway:
Pecan Tree Plantation
My Transportation Awaits near the Pecan Trees After driving past the pecan groves we head up into the Santa Rita Mountains, to Madera Canyon, which is in the Coronado National Forest. Over us towers Mt Wrightson, at 9,453ft. Here is a nice view of the Santa Rita Mountain chain:
