Desert Botanical Garden - Plants & Sculpture - Prickly Pear Cactus Blossom (Opuntia, family)


The Desert Botanical Garden is a living museum of some 50,000 plants representing more than 4,000 species. They offer education, research, exhibition, and conservation of desert plants from around the world with emphasis on species from the Sonoran Desert — southern Arizona and south to Mexico. Wow! This Prickly Pear cactus has a bumper crop of buds and flowers. Quite impressive.


Size: 6354px × 4236px
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Photo credit: © B. David Cathell / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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