Thorn apple.
Immature sacred datura seed pod (Datura wrightii), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona. .
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Sacred datura (Datura wrightii).
At the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Sacred datura (Datura wrightii).
At the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Perches: Blue dasher dragonfly
(Pachydiplax longipennis) on a ku’ipad – a harvesting stick used by the Tohono O’odham people to gather the fruits of saguaro cactus (bahidaj). The
ku’ipad is about 20 feet long (6 meters) and made of saguaro cactus ribs wired together, with crosspieces to jostle the the fruits, which are caught in buckets or baskets. At the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.
Perches: Blue dasher dragonfly
(Pachydiplax longipennis) on a ku’ipad – a harvesting stick used by the Tohono O’odham people to gather the fruits of saguaro cactus (bahidaj). The
ku’ipad is about 20 feet long (6 meters) and made of saguaro cactus ribs wired together, with crosspieces to jostle the the fruits, which are caught in buckets or baskets. At the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.
Perches: Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna
♀), Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Please click photo for an enlarged view.
Perches: Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna
♀), Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Please click photo for an enlarged view.
Spiny.
Spiny.
Cactus wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus), building a nest in chainfruit cholla (Opuntia fulgida), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Dithyramb 