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The up-and-over return team still had their cameras
rolling. This picture was taken on the return trip near the top of
the mountain. It captures a cholla garden, a plant that every hiker
learns to respect. They may look fuzzy, but that fuzz is really a
needle-sharp set of spines that pierce anything they touch. And the
spines are very hard to remove because they have backward-facing barbs to
prevent removal.
chol·la (choi"…)
n. Any of several spiny, shrubby, or treelike cacti of the genus Opuntia
having cylindrical stem segments.
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