Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog!

Apple is convinced most of these are pictures of sedum! They sure look like sedum flowers, but they’re not on sedum. What a gorgeous Prickly Pear. I mean all of these prickly pears are stunning beyond imagination, but wow this one has incredible features. And the colors!! *chef’s kiss*

Encountered at Desert Survivor Nursery in Tucson, a place I’m lowkey fixated with because it’s a nursery by disabled folks that employs disabled folks. 💚 It warms the frozen sap of my heart.

[update: thanks to backyardnature.net, I’ve finally found a name: Opuntia Stenopetala [link to Wikipedia].]

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Scroll through the most recent photos:

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 55: Tecoma fulva ‘Bells of Fire'(?)

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 54: Climbing Milkweed! (Funastrum cynanchoides)

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 53: Chitalpa, or what you get when you mix Desert Willow with Catalpa

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 52: Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis)

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 51: Ironwood (Olneya tesota)

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 50: Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella)

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 49: Opuntia Microdasys

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 48: Yellow Cholla

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 47: A Cholla with Brown Flowers! (Cylindropuntia)

And see all the photosets together here:

Spring Flowers, Tucson, 2023