A mature Senita cactus can produce upwards of 3,000 flowers during the 3- to 5-month blooming season. The Senita moth, Upiga virescens, specializes in the pollination of the cactus' blooms.

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Just as many wildflowers are beginning to fade, cactus blooms are showing up a bit early to keep deserts around Tucson colorful. Among the early bloomers are red and yellow cholla cactus flowers ...

A cholla cactus in bloom brings red highlights to the spring landscape. Various cholla species can produce flowers of multiple hues. photos by Doug Kreutz / Arizona Daily Star ...

Easter cactus bears long-petaled pink, red, orange, white or purple flowers that open at sunrise and close in the evening. It likes bright, indirect light to grow its best, but won’t tolerate ...

Why is the saguaro blossom Arizona's state flower? Arizona has about 51 native cactus species, ... The red fruit that emerges from the flowers that get pollinated usually appears around July.

Also discovered in the 1800s was the Christmas cactus. The ancestors of today’s Christmas cactus were discovered in Brazil in 1819. Their botanical name is Schlumbergera, named after Frédéric ...

Claret cup cactus had some blooms open and others yet to open, and some were large, with over 60 blooms or buds on a single plant. My favorite, perhaps because it is least common, was Whipple's ...

She extols several plants currently blooming in her garden whose flowers are in the fiery color spectrum that stretches from yellow to orange to red. The plant she is most enthusiastic about is a ...

Keep an eye out for Arizona's iconic saguaro cactus flower as its blooming season is here for the early months of the summer. ... they mature into bright red fruit in late June and early July, ...