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The barrel cactus is commonly found in the three hot North American deserts. The two genera of barrel cactus, Echinocactus and Ferocactus, are made up of more than 60 different species.

I’ve been waiting months for this return to the cactus-bloom wilderness. If there’s a springtime song in the air, it must be the flowers calling.

Bees: Cactus that depend primarily on bees as pollinators produce two types of flowers. First are open bowl shaped blooms, the second is the flat disk or "daisy" shaped flower. Both may be absent ...

My favorite, perhaps because it is least common, was Whipple's fishhook barrel cactus, with lovely magenta petals. I spent some time photographing cactus flowers until the beetles caught my attention.

NATURAL HISTORY PIMA PINEAPPLE CACTUS } Coryphantha scheeri var. robustispina FAMILY: Cactaceae | DESCRIPTION: From a distance, the Pima pineapple cactus resembles a small barrel cactus. It is ...