Pictures from Phoenix and sometimes from the surrounding cities that make up the "Valley of the Sun"
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Alien
Doesn’t this look like it might have arrived from some distant planet?This is a succulent known as Stapelia Grandiflora and as the “grand-flora” name implies, it produces a huge flower that to me looks quite alien.
You have the most interesting plants out there in the desert! And very beautiful, too.
Thank you for your thoughts, Sharon. I can't believe there was so much damage and loss of live with not a single reported tornado. Very unusual storm. We personally have no damage, but electricity and tree crews are busy all over town...
Yes, I agree. That's probably the devil...you know, looks so attractive and then sucks you in and you're a goner! You probably ought not get your camera too close to it!
It amazes me how a cactus can look "normal" for a cactus all year, and then all of a sudden it produces large, strange flowers, for a few days, and then they are gone.
Julie and I were away for a few days, staying in a bed and breakfast in Oak Creek, with no TV, no phone and no internet, so I am just now catching up with your last several posts.
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Beauty!
Very low to the ground it appears but what a brilliant color!
You have the most interesting plants out there in the desert! And very beautiful, too.
Thank you for your thoughts, Sharon. I can't believe there was so much damage and loss of live with not a single reported tornado. Very unusual storm. We personally have no damage, but electricity and tree crews are busy all over town...
It looks like a starfish. Great color
Strange but beautiful!
Beautiful!
Wasn't this in a Star Wars movie, Sharon?
I am loving the variety of flowers and plants you have been posting recently!
Yes, I agree. That's probably the devil...you know, looks so attractive and then sucks you in and you're a goner! You probably ought not get your camera too close to it!
Quite bizarre indeed! I am loving all these strange plants you are shooting.
It's very pretty! I don't think I have seen one of these before.
It amazes me how a cactus can look "normal" for a cactus all year, and then all of a sudden it produces large, strange flowers, for a few days, and then they are gone.
Julie and I were away for a few days, staying in a bed and breakfast in Oak Creek, with no TV, no phone and no internet, so I am just now catching up with your last several posts.
What an amazing flower! Is that the bud? It looks alien too. Love the deep color.
Stapelia flowers are amazing! I keep one species only but it's growing everywhere now as each seed pod has hundreds of seeds! :-)
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