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Organ Mountains Photography Gallery III


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Yellow lichens form a backdrop for blooming Prickly Pears in the southern Organ Mountains.

A Blossom of the Long Spined Prickly Pear

A large flower of the Engelmann Prickly Pear, off the trail to Fillmore Falls, near Dripping Springs.

Exceptionally large and beautiful flowers of the New Mexico Barrel Cactus. - Western Organ Mountains

Flowers and fruit of the New Mexico Barrel Cactus - Western Organ Mountains

The striking flowers of the Echinocereus stramineus, or Purple Hedgehog Cactus - Southern Organ Mountains

Flowering Claret Cup Cactus, foothills of the western Organ Mountains

Detail of flower of Claret Cup Cactus - Southern Organ Mountains

Bee in flower of the 'Turk's Head' cactus, Echinocactus horizonthalonius - Southern Organ Mountains

Blossom of the Corypantha macromeris or 'Nipple Cactus'. - Western Organ Mountains

The striking flowers of the Cactus Corypantha vivapara - Western foothills of the Organ Mountains

Flowers of the 'Straw Cactus', Echinocereus stramineus. These Cacti form large clumps in the southern Organ Mountains.

Detail of a blossom of the Echinocactus horizonthalonius or 'Turk's Head Cactus'. - Southern Organ Mountains

A large showy flower of the Opuntia imbricata or 'Shingle Cholla'. - Trail to Dripping Springs

A flower of the early-blooming Echinocactus intertextus or 'Basket Cactus'. - Western Foothills

Flowers of the rare and endangered night-blooming 'Queen of the Night' cactus.

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Flowering Cactus - Organ Mountains Photography Gallery III

 Flowering Cactus - Organ Mountains Photography Gallery III