RHH's photos with the keyword: filifera

These California Fan Palms were photographed in Hellhole Canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. We were hiking to Maidenhair Falls when the photo was taken.

This photo was taken at Cottonwood Springs in Joshua Tree National Park. Cottonwood Springs is an oasis from which we began our hike that day to another oasis, Lost Palms, and to Mastodon Mountain and its mines. The hike was not in an area like this but in the desert.

One of our hikes in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park this past week was up into Hellhole Canyon in the San Ysidro Mountains of southern California. The canyon is noted for its palm trees, the native California Fan Palm. We hiked and scrambled our way to Maidenhair Falls which were dry.

The California Fan Palm is native to the deserts of southern California and Baja California. It keeps its dead fronds for a long time and they form a "skirt" around the palm that provides a habitat for birds and other creatures. The "skirt" of dead fronds also leaves them vulnerable to the action of idiots like the man who set many of the palms at this oasis, Fortynine Palms in Joshua Tree National Park, on fire. The skirt of this young palm reaches to the ground.

The California Fan Palm is native to the deserts of southern California and Baja California. It keeps its dead fronds for a long time and they form a "skirt" around the palm that provides a habitat for birds and other creatures. The "skirt" of dead fronds also leaves them vulnerable to the action of idiots like the man who set many of the palms at this oasis, Fortynine Palms in Joshua Tree National Park, on fire. On these older palms the bottom of the "skirt" has disintegrated.

The California Fan Palm is native to the deserts of southern California and Baja California. It keeps its dead fronds for a long time and they form a "skirt" around the palm that provides a habitat for birds and other creatures. The "skirt" of dead fronds also leaves them vulnerable to the action of idiots like the man who set many of the palms at this oasis, Fortynine Palms in Joshua Tree National Park, on fire. The skirt of this young palm reaches to the ground.

The California Fan Palm is native to the deserts of southern California and Baja California. It keeps its dead fronds for a long time and they form a "skirt" around the palm that provides a habitat for birds and other creatures. The "skirt" of dead fronds also leaves them vulnerable to the action of idiots like the man who set many of the palms at this oasis, Fortynine Palms in Joshua Tree National Park, on fire. The skirt of the young palms reaches to the ground.

Fortynine Palms is an oasis in the desert on the north side of Joshua Tree National Park. We hiked to the oasis the first morning of our stay in Joshua Tree and discovered that the oasis is a pleasant stand of palms in a rocky canyon.

These are some of the California Fan Palms at Fortynine Palms Oasis in Joshua Tree National Park. We hiked to the oasis the first morning of our stay in Joshua Tree.

These are some of the California Fan Palms at Fortynine Palms Oasis in Joshua Tree National Park. We hiked to the oasis the first morning of our stay in Joshua Tree.

This is the oasis we hiked to, Fortynine Palms, the first morning of our stay in Joshua Tree National Park. It is on the north side of the park and a separate entrance. The palms are California Fan Palms and some of them are burnt, the result of some idiot setting them on fire a shortly before we were there.