Cholla Flowers Coming

Cholla Flower Buds

Buckhorn Cholla cacti are growing in many places on the portion of our lot that is still natural desert. We were up on the hill today and I took this close-up of a cluster of flower buds on one of the plants.

In less than a month and continuing into summer, the various cholla will have yellow to orange flowers in bloom. We don’t exactly know why, but some of the cholla have flowers later in the spring season than others.

When the flowers do open, just look and don’t get your nose in close to smell them. You just might get one of those spikes in your face. Click on the image to enlarge.

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