Desert flowers

For a couple of days each year the little hedgehog cactus blooms with extraordinary flowers. Tucson AZ. Shot with the 7D and the 100mm.

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Bursting with colour the Atacama desert in Chile becomes adorned by a stunning flower carpet every five to seven years.. This year's display is said to the most extraordinary of the past 18 years.

Desert or Apricot Globemallow - Malvaceae (Mallow Family) Sphaeralcea ambigua ssp. ambigua

Desert Globemallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua), also called Apricot Mallow. On White Mountain Road near the intersection with highway CA-168, in the White Mountains. Inyo National Forest, Inyo County, California.

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Valley Of Fire, Nevada

I love these spiny not-a-cactus, green and leafy (but only when it rains) not-a-tree, gorgeously flowering Sonora Desert plants. Their sprays of orange-to-scarlet (each 1/2-1" long) flowers can be 10-12 inches long. It's sort of like Christmas in the desert when they start blooming! Ocotillo are also known by names such as flaming sword, jacobs staff, and vine cactus. They are the northernmost species of a group of similar plants which grown in Mexico…