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Post-monsoon blooms on fishhook barrel cacti (Ferocactus wislizeni). At the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Post-monsoon blooms on fishhook barrel cacti (Ferocactus wislizeni). At the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
I almost missed this young Cooper’s hawk (Accipiter cooperii) resting in a tangle of mesquite branches.
I almost missed this young Cooper’s hawk (Accipiter cooperii) resting in a tangle of mesquite branches.
Gila woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Gila woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Sacred datura (Datura wrightii), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Sacred datura (Datura wrightii), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Fireworks.
An explosion of late-season ocotillo blossoms (Fouquieria splendens), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona. Ocotillo is usually a spring bloomer, but the plants are drought deciduous, and sometimes they will re-bloom in late summer after monsoon rains. The spring flowers typically occur in a more compact inflorescence.
Etymology note: Ocotillo is a Spanish diminutive derived from the Nahuatl loan word ocotl, meaning torch, hence little torch.
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