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Silver cholla Golden cholla Wiggins' cholla Cylindropuntia fosbergii (C.B. Wolf) Rebman, M.A. Baker & Pinkava: Hoffmann's teddybear cholla Pink teddy-bear cholla Mason Valley cholla Cylindropuntia fulgida Engelm. Jumping cholla Hanging chain cholla Cylindropuntia ganderi (C.B. Wolf) Rebman & Pinkav: Gander cholla Gander's buckhorn cholla
Silver cholla is a large, shrub to tree-like cactus which may exceed 0.5 to 2 m (1.6 to 6.6 ft) in height. Its stems and branches are made up of cylindrical green tubercles (segments) up to 1.5 cm wide and just under 1.0 cm tall. The elliptical white or yellow areoles turn gray and bear conspicuous yellow glochids that are 3 to 4 millimeters long.
Cylindropuntia fulgida, the jumping cholla, also known as the hanging chain cholla, is a cholla cactus native to Sonora and the Southwestern United States. [1]The greatest range of the jumping cholla is the entirety of Sonora, except the Sierra Madre Occidental cordillera on the east and northern California, including the major islands of Tiburon and Isla Ángel de la Guarda.
The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico.
Cylindropuntia imbricata, the cane cholla (walking stick cholla, tree cholla, or chainlink cactus), is a cactus found in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico, including some cooler regions in comparison to many other cacti.
Cylindropuntia ramosissima is a decumbent or erect and treelike cactus which can approach 2 meters-6 feet in maximum height. It has many narrow branches made up of cylindrical segments, green in color drying gray, the surface divided into squarish, flat tubercles with few or no spines, or often with a single long, straight spine.
The gray treefrog (Dryophytes versicolor) is a species of small arboreal holarctic tree frog native to much of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada. [ 2 ] It is sometimes referred to as the eastern gray treefrog , northern gray treefrog , [ 3 ] common gray treefrog , or tetraploid gray treefrog to distinguish it from its more ...
Calotes is a genus of lizards in the draconine clade of the family Agamidae.The genus contains 29 species.Some species are known as forest lizards, others as "bloodsuckers" due to their red heads, and yet others (namely C. versicolor) as garden lizards.