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Elsewhere in southern Arizona this spring there are showy wildflower displays, but in the little patch of Sonoran Desert I call home, we don't have carpets of Mexican Gold poppies or lupines. But I'm sure we'll have lots of cactus flowers this year, and to me that's even more beautiful. I went out today to get some pictures of prickly pears in bud--some of the buds produce flowers:
Others produce new pads (which in some types of prickly pear are harvested and eaten, known as
nopalitos):
This year every prickly pear I saw had many, many buds, even plants that seemed as though they weren't going to live much longer.
The cholla are also in bud right now:
Ciolim - cholla buds are a traditional food of the Tohono O'odham people
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