RHH's photos with the keyword: teddy bear cholla

Photographed along he Bull Pasture trail in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

The fruits of the Jumping Cholla are edible and cattle are reported to love them, braving the spines to get at them. These were photographed at Cholla Cactus Garden in Joshua Tree National Park.

This is a flower bud of the Jumping Cholla cactus, photographed at the Cholla Cactus Garden in Joshua Tree National Park. The garden is not really a garden at all but a large area filled with these cacti.

This photo and the two insets show the flowers, a flower bud and the fruits of the Jumping Cholla Cactus, so called because the sections are easily detached and seem at times to "jump" onto one's shoes and clothes. The spines, as Jim has pointed out, can penetrate leather, so it is a very uncomfortable plant to be around.

Traveling southeast on the Pinto Basin Road in Joshua Tree National Park we came to the Cholla Cactus Garden just as we came down out of Wilson Canyon. The garden is a huge area covered with Cholla cactus, mostly Jumping Cholla. They were starting to bloom when we were there and I'll post some photos of the blooms tomorrow.

Emerging from Wilson Canyon on the Pinto Basin Road in Joshua Tree National Park we came to a huge area covered with Jumping Cholla cactus known as the Cholla Garden. This photo was taken there against the background of the Hexie Mountains.

This photo is of the Cholla Cactus Garden in Joshua Tree National Park, a huge area covered with Jumping Cholla. The view here is to the east of the Pinto Basin Road with the Pinto Mountains in the background.

This is the plant known as the Teddybear Cholla, a cactus that was just beginning to bloom in Joshua Tree National Park. There is also a small plant of the Beavertail Prickly Pear on the ground to the right.

This is, I believe, the Teddybear Cholla, a cactus that was just beginning to bloom when we hiked to Fortynine Palms Oasis in Joshua Tree National Park. In spite of its name it is not a plant one would want to hug. Pieces of it come off easily and attach themselves to shoes and shirts and are very difficult to detach. For that reasons it is sometimes called the Jumping Cactus.