Golden barrel cactus blossoms (Echinocactus grusonii), at the Glendale Main Library Xeriscape Demonstration Garden, Glendale, Arizona.
Tag: Glendale Main Library
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Peacock plumage, fore and aft.
Library peacock.
Feather studies. Attached.
A long-horned bee (probably in the genus Melissodes) on a pricklypear blossom. At the Glendale Main Library Xeriscape Demonstration Garden, Glendale, Arizona.
Male and female jojoba flowers (Simmondsia chinensis), at the Glendale Main Library Xeriscape Demonstration Garden, Glendale, Arizona.
Etymology note: Despite it’s specific name, jojoba is a plant of the desert southwest, and is not remotely Chinese. The botanist who originally assigned scientific epithets for the plant misread a collection label, mistaking a scrawled Calif for China. Jojoba is a transliteration of the O’odham name for the plant: Hohowi.
Nopal bebé.
At the Glendale Main Library Xeriscape Demonstration Garden, Glendale, Arizona.
Desert floral, No. 3.
Wooly butterflybush (Buddleja marrubiifolia), at the Glendale Main Library Xeriscape Demonstration Garden, Glendale, Arizona.
Desert floral, No. 2.
Red yucca (Hesperaloe parviflora), at the Glendale Main Library Xeriscape Demonstration Garden, Glendale, Arizona.
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