RHH's photos with the keyword: chain cholla

Photographed late in the day along the Bull Pasture Trail in the Ajo Mountains of Organ Pipe National Monument on the Arizona-Mexico border.

The taller cacti are, of course, Saguaros, the shorter the Chain Fruit Cholla. The photograph was taken along the Bull Pasture trail in the Ajo Mountains of southern Arizona and in Organ Pipe Cactus National Park.

This is a Chain Cholla, photographed while hiking to Burro Mesa. The grass in the middle of the arms is the nest of a Cactus Wren with the opening just visible above the cactus fruit. The resident of the next was not around.

After stopping at Sotol Overlook we went on to Burro Mesa and hiked to the base of the mesa, to a place where water pouring off the mesa has left a worn channel. These cacti were photographed on the way to Burro Mesa Pouroff. The cactus in front is a Purple-tinged Prickly-pear and the cactus in back is a Chain Cholla.