Flowering Cactus - Organ Mountains of New Mexico Gallery III


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Yellow lichens form a backdrop for blooming prickly pears

Blossom of long spined prickly pear

A large flower of the engelmann prickly pear

Exceptionally large and beautiful flowers of the New Mexico barrel cactus

Flowers and fruit of the New Mexico barrel cactus

The striking flowers of the Echinocereus stramineus, or purple torch cactus

Flowers of the claret cup cactus

Unusually large flower of the claret cup cactus

Detail of flower of claret cup cactus

Bee in flower of the 'Turk's Head' cactus, Echinocactus horizonthalonius

Blossom of the Corypantha macromeris or 'nipple cactus'.

The striking flowers of the cactus Corypantha vivapara

Flowers of the 'straw cactus',  Echinocereus stramineus

Detail of a blossom of the Echinocactus horizonthalonius or 'Turk's Head' cactus.

A large showy flower of the  Opuntia imbricata or 'Shingle Cholla'.

A flower of the early-blooming Echinocactus intertextus or 'Basket Cactus'.

Flowers of the rare and endangered night-blooming 'Queen of the Night' cactus.


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Flowering Cactus


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