Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Grand Canyon Cactus Flowers - Single plants with two ver different personalities

Grand Canyon the Hidden Secrets, I cherish how such sharp, unforgiving plants produce excellent, fragile blossoms and the complexity between the sprouts and the spines. I imagine that differentiation makes for intriguing photographs.

A Blooming Century Plant

A genuine treat to see and photo

A "Century Plant" is really an agave prickly plant. The myth about the blossom is that it happens just once like clockwork, consequently the mainstream yet deceptive name.

Grand Canyon the Hidden Secrets, As a general rule, this agave lives somewhere around ten and thirty years, sending up a blossom stalk as much as 26 feet high only once toward the end of its life. The plant then kicks the bucket yet delivers shoots from its base, which keep on growing.

This kind of agave was vital to the Native Americans who once made the Grand Canyon their home, giving a wellspring of cleanser, sustenance, fiber, solution and even weapons.

Century plants sprout in late spring and early summer. I took this photograph in May on a trek down the Bright Angel Trail to Indian Gardens.

Sensitive Flowers in Grand Canyon

In such a stunning setting on an excellent scale, it's decent to stop and take a gander at the little things....

Grand Canyon the Hidden Secrets, I don't recognize what the vast majority of the desert wildflowers are called that I find in Grand Canyon, however I appreciate them in any case.

Such delightful things live in a such a brutal domain, with almost no water and to a great degree hot temperatures amid the late spring months. I've been in the gully when the thermometer at Phantom Ranch at the base of the Canyon read 130 degrees Fahrenheit!

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