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Beavertail Cactus (has short spines [=glochids; ouch!] ) - with fuchia flowers
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Desert Prickly Pear (with flower)
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Pencil Cholla (with closeup)
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Silver Cholla (with flower)
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Hedgehog Cactus (with flowers)
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Barrel cactus (plus beavertails) with closeup
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Desert Agave (pollinated by bats [& bees, judging by photo at right])
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Burroweed (with closeup)
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Brittlebush (with closeup)
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Creosotebush (with closeups of yellow flowers and fuzzy fruits) - A dominant plant of the Sonoran Desert
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Chuparosa (with closeup of hummingbird pollinated flowers)
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Jojoba (with closeups of vertically oriented leaves)
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Ocotillo (with closeups of leaves and
hummingbird pollinated flowers)
Plants of the Desert Washes & Canyon Communities
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Mesquite (with bipinnately compound leaves and straight white thorn)
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Catclaw Acacia with closeup of thorn and flowers and legume fruits
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Paloverde [green stems] with closeup of
flowers and a legume fruit
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Smoketree (with closeup of leafless green stems)
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Elephant tree (with aromatic leaves and thick water storing branches)
California Fan Palm (in desert oasis)
Some Desert Animals
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Blacktailed Jackrabbit (left)
- Gray Fox (center) - Kit Fox
(right)
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Loggerhead Shrike (left) - Greater Road Runner (center) - Blackchinned Hummingbird (right)
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Ringtail (left photo) - Desert Pupfish (right photo)
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Desert Iguana (left [15" long]) - Chuckwalla (center [15" long]) - Giant Hairy Scorpion (right; that's actually what it's called!)
