In southern Arizona, an endangered fish, the Quitobaquito pupfish, inhabits the springs, stream, and pond at Quitobaquito on Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. |
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The Organ Pipe Cactus is a species of cactus native to Mexico. |
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People with arrhythmias can try the herbs lily of the valley and Cactus grandiflorus, but they should do so only under the supervision of a physician. |
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Siberian ginseng, also known as Eleuthero, is now available from Cactus Botanies, a vertically integrated botanical raw material supplier. |
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It includes Liquid Fonds and Roux, Mole Poblano, and Sucrea Cactus Lemon Fond. |
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Kershaw will make three more Cactus League starts before his regular-season debut April 9 at San Diego, in the Dodgers' fourth game. |
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Cactus wrens, white-winged doves, and red-tailed hawks build nests in the crotches between arms and the trunk. |
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The ocotillos can be glorious in their spring bloom, while the self-guided natural trail at the Cholla Cactus Garden is always a favorite. |
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The move was announced immediately after Monday's Cactus League game, a 9-5 loss to the Oakland A's in front of 5,509 at the Ballpark. |
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Other names include Candlewood, Slimwood, Coachwhip, Vine Cactus, Flamingsword, or Jacob's Staff. |
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Citroen last week unveiled its Cactus concept car which prefigures its new range of budget vehicles. |
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That begins with today, when Ramirez will participate in pregame drills but won't play in either of today's Cactus League split-squad games against Seattle and Oakland. |
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Top notes of crisp Italian Lemon, Papaya Nectar Fizz and Jungle Cactus Flower stimulate the senses, leading to a heart of rare and exotic Masdevallia Orchid. |
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Minor winner Nawaiet is a half-sister to 1985 Prix Saint-Alary heroine Fitnah, later the third dam of Grade 3 winner and useful Kentucky sire Cactus Ridge. |
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Most of the organ pipe cactus in the United States are found within the monument's borders. |
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That herbage was found in most deserts in this part of the galaxy, and was known to some people as the Esirinus cactus. |
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Whole wheat tortillas are stuffed with refried black beans, real cactus leaves and cheddar cheese. |
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Another Arizona cereus is the Cereus thurberi commonly called the Organpipe cactus. |
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They wore chaps criss-crossed with scars from needle sharp cactus, their hats were badly weathered, having survived many suns, winds and rains. |
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This cactus typically grows in gravelly clay or loam soils, partially shaded by other plants or rocks. |
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Small specimens of cactus and succulents are ideal for these tabletop gardens, and many plants can coexist happily in the same container. |
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This food grouping includes corn, beans, and squash, but is also enriched by the addition of chilies, cactus, maguey, and amaranth. |
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It's an odd pull that land of cactus and mesquite exerts on those of us born to it. |
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This means that paddling a kayak around desert islands during the day and camping amongst the cactus at night is easy. |
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Orchid, African violet and cactus are just a few of the special mixes available. |
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Because of the glochids, great care is required when harvesting or preparing prickly pear cactus. |
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Species of Cylindropuntia and Opuntia cactus have a wide range of morphologies from tall, tree-like forms to procumbent forms. |
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The nopal cactus will grace your plate if you order either the cactus gratinado or the cactus fajita. |
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After peeling off outer skin, they polish it with castor oil, cactus jelly, curd, ghee and turmeric powder to make it smooth and slippery. |
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Despite the cactus, this is clearly rangeland, and we carefully evade the barbed wire as we cross into the field. |
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For something in bloom, choose a camellia, Christmas cactus, cymbidium, kalanchoe, or moth orchid. |
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We kept driving, past cedar thickets and a pasture studded with blooming prickly pear cactus. |
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In warmer climates such as those of California and Texas, I've seen it growing with desert plants like cactus and agave. |
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These allelochemicals are concentrated in the photosynthetic layer of the stem which is located directly under the skin of the cactus. |
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There are about three hundred members of the cactus family classified as prickly pear, all belonging to the genus Opuntia. |
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But still you'd bump into a prickly pear or cholla cactus and have to stop and pull the thorns out of person's leg or shoe. |
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Along the way, look closely at the bluffs for the small prickly pear cactus that grows in the rain shadow here. |
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Tequila is not made from cactus, but from the agave plant, a relative of the aloe. |
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The aloe vera plant is grown typically in dry areas and is actually a member of the lily family, although it has a more cactus like appearance. |
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This incredibly beautiful desert wouldn't be complete without its gardens of cactus, black brush, yucca, monkey flower, Easter flowers and ferns. |
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Grow thorny plants like agave, barberry, cactus, Natal plum, and yucca under rear windows. |
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In the gardens are lemon and lime trees, prickly pear cactus plants, fig trees and ornamental palms. |
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He agreed to establish a population of this endangered cactus on his property, which already had a perpetual conservation easement. |
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Enter a forest of Optuntia cactus and mangroves where colonies of great frigate birds nest. |
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Also there were cornfields, grapevines, lemon trees, stands of bamboo, and forests of cactus. |
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The pure white cotton she wore was sullied and ragged from thorns of cactus and scrambling over hard rocks of the narrow pass. |
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A round cactus plant in a flowerpot and a photograph of Mukundan and Nalini taken on a drama set stood on a table. |
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There were hardwoods and ponderosas, as well as a dozen varieties of cactus, but no grasses or wildflowers. |
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Milligan dragged himself through sagebrush, cactus and rocks, tearing what little skin he had left on his right arm and backside. |
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Left to itself, it would be sagebrush and cactus, but American capital and hydro-engineering wizardry have made it greener than wet Seattle. |
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He strolled from the hotel across a vacant field of cactus and sagebrush, shooting snakes and beer cans as he made his way. |
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But only the tumbleweeds, sagebrush and cactus, that stood like splintered sentries, were visible in this vast wilderness. |
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Sideoats grama, buffalo grass, sagebrush, yucca and prickly pear cactus are also common on the canyon floor and walls. |
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There was neither road nor house, only a saguaro here, a barrel cactus there, a lot of sand underfoot, and even more sun overhead. |
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The mushroom cloud diminished until it was no bigger than a man-sized saguaro, a desert cactus. |
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The wind rustles the brittle-bush and whispers its way though the clustered needles of saguaros, the hallmark cactus of the Sonoran Desert. |
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Just stroll down Boca Chica Beach, a remote stretch of beach and dunes surrounded by miles of brush and cactus. |
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These include cactus, succulents, sansevieria, also known as bowstring hemp, and yucca, none of which is suitable for bathrooms. |
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Hummingbirds favored the maguey cactus, and people who extracted the plant's sap were also known as hummingbirds. |
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Not thinking much of the local cactus brew, Spanish conquistadors in Mexico begin distilling the Aztec's pulque and come up with a mezcal wine. |
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They are the raw material from which tequila is made, the pared hearts of the blue-tinged agave cactus. |
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Much of the menu is Tex-Mex, but, refreshingly, you won't see a single cactus logo or silly hat anywhere. |
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Tonto is the fifth largest forest in the U.S. with vistas ranging from piney mountains to cactus and desert. |
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He found a stick to use as a tool to knock open some barrel cactus so that he could eat the innards. |
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Its distinctive characteristic is the sacramental use of peyote, a cactus found in the Chihuahuan Desert that contains the psychedelic mescaline. |
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On San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, prickly pear cactus is a major food of rock iguanas. |
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While playing, the child had tripped and fallen onto a large potted cactus plant. |
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The cactus, or more precisely, the cochineal insects that feed on it yield a red-purple stain when crushed. |
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Rattlesnakes eat mostly rodents, but coachwhip snakes will climb trees or cactus to eat eggs from bird nests. |
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One lady, a rucksack, two bags, an embroidery frame and a cactus went from Kent to Bow? |
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Land tortoises are vegetarian, eating leaves, grass, and in some cases even cactus. |
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Opuntia robusta var. robusta is a perennial shrubby cactus with a poorly defined trunk made up of thick, orbicular, bluish-green cladodes. |
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While poinsettia is the most popular, a Christmas cactus in full bloom is a great gift and easy to care for once the flowers have faded. |
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The best flowers to give at Christmas time are orchids, holly, poinsettias, and the Christmas cactus as well as any red flower. |
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A helpful local in Grand Canaria offered to rub cactus juice on the aforementioned bonce, to relieve the burning. |
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This genus of cactus is native to the Caribbean and the United States, although Cactoblastis is not. |
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The cactus expert said get out of the house NOW, get on to the front nature strip and wait for me, I will be there in 20 minutes. |
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Every fall, my Christmas cactus displays a spectacular profusion of blooms on a covered patio in San Mateo, California. |
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It is developed from the hoodia cactus, which grows in isolated parts of the Kalahari desert. |
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Similarly, trade restrictions now apply to hoodia, a cactus native to southern Africa. |
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Tapir, peccaries, and brocket deer appear to survive on cactus, while carnivores like jaguar and puma survive on fluids from their prey. |
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To protect the cactus, tribal members erected exclosures in rugged terrain on two mountain peaks on Tohono O'odham Nation lands. |
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Their primary staple was probably agave cactus, which the Spaniards later began distilling into mezcal, a liquor. |
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Dennis had waded through the bunch grass and cactus and walked home before the EMS and police came. |
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The boyfriend bought a big cactus yesterday to add in with the banana plants etc. |
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He finally got his cactus home, planted it in his backyard, and over time it grew to about two metres. |
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Second, the cactus and acacia trees may have dissimilar distributions of branch length. |
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Aloe vera resembles a cactus, but is actually a perennial succulent which belongs to the lily family. |
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Fine hold him for the police but throw him in the cactus you just got your boss a lawsuit. |
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She has very kindly given me a small wad of bills and I am no longer in the cactus. |
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Everywhere were scrub cactus and yucca plants looming with sharp spines to catch the unwary passer-by and stab into the skin. |
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While cactus flowers have many petals, the ocotillo's red flowers have only five, united at their base to form a tube. |
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We paused next to a clump of cactus, dismounted the camels, waited in vain for the small children. |
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While most of us can easily identify a cactus, it may be harder to differentiate between an agave and an aloe. |
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The Organ Pipe cactus opens its blossoms only during the cooler evening hours. |
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The glorious flower color of the hedgehog cactus rivals that of the desert sunset. |
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Lizards with bright blue tails scuttled out of our way, taking cover among the thorn bushes and cactus that were the only greenery. |
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Perhaps the arid West Texas environment and the landscape dominated by low-growing mesquite, scrub oak and cactus explained the widespread local veneration of trees. |
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It all sounds a bit dramatic, but that cactus feels like something special. |
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By early September the sea is warm and the mandarin oranges and cactus fruit have begun to replace the summer crowds. |
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He hunted deer in the pelting rain, got tangled up in a cactus, and then shot his buffalo and, in gleeful celebration, performed an Indian war dance over the carcass. |
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He had scratches on his wrist, maybe from a cholla cactus or from sleeping under a mesquite tree. |
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Both exotic and indigenous species were acclimatised, and specialised sections, such as rosaries, ferneries, borders, and cactus gardens, developed. |
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Jade plants, cactus, English ivy and asparagus ferns are pretty safe bets. |
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During this period, the species feeds on the nectar and pollen of flowering saguaros and organ pipe cactus, contributing to the successful pollination of these succulents. |
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It looked somehow like the surface of a cactus, the peyote cactus. |
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You'll traverse a series of high valleys, ravines, and washes filled with a variety of plants, including purple barrel cactus and stands of ocotillos. |
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My hedge maze is two straight lines of bushes that lead to a cactus. |
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This reminded one student of the maguey, and he enthusiastically described to the class the process of making mescal and tequila from that cactus plant. |
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Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus. |
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Fragrant tuberoses, jackmentias, succulent cactus varieties, the milky bush and palm varieties, including the Royal Palms, can be used for avenue borders. |
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Dry heat, common in most houses during the winter, is fine for cactus and succulents, but it's tough on tropicals such as African violets, bromeliads, and orchids. |
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The aim of this work was to assess the fertility and breeding potential of the triploid and aneuploid hybrids with a view to developing an improved vine cactus crop. |
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In their desert habitats their diet consists of spiny cactus, yucca pods, creosote bush, cholla, pinyon nuts, seeds, prickly pear, and any available green vegetation. |
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The Aztecs cultivated cochineal, a tiny insect that lived on the native nopal cactus and produced a red dye that was the brightest and strongest color Europe had ever seen. |
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O'Sullivan's stereographic image from 1871 of a melon cactus bears signs of his imbrication of photography and the practice of specimen collection. |
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Caroline arrived at his table with two carrier bags and a green carton, which she insisted on opening to show off a new cactus for her collection. |
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It grows here, along with numerous smaller cacti, including beaver-tail cactus, California barrel cactus, hedgehog cactus, and various prickly pear cacti. |
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Some data are available with regard to comparisons of deflection per unit force for terminal, subterminal and sub-subterminal joints for cactus species. |
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On the altar, we often use Navajo or Hopi baskets and weavings made of native materials, along with a cholla cactus cross, in place of traditional floral arrangements. |
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Velvet cactus, prickly pear, Bergerocactus emoryi, and cholla are widespread, often joined by box thorn, a prickly shrub in the nightshade family. |
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My neighbors in Tucson, for instance, planted South African sweet gum that irrupted into the Sonoran desert and covered cactus and other indigenous shrubs. |
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At my job at the software company, I had a co-worker who was an exotic fruit fiend, and I got introduced to sweetsops and cactus fruit and the cherimoya. |
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Beyond the asphalt the land was parched brown by the heat, and there were no trees, just stubby greasewood bushes and low grass, with an occasional spiky yucca or flat cactus. |
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The most common animal dye was cochineal, a crimson colour which came from cactus eating insects, of which 17,000 were needed to produce one single ounce of dye. |
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A Christmas cactus is also a good idea and is a flowering cactus that generally blooms around Christmas time, although it can bloom at any time of year. |
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Forget about formalwear and join in a bit of cactus and barrels. |
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Two weeks before, she had pricked her index finger on a thorny cactus. |
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There aren't many places where you can see prickly pear cactus and redwood trees growing along the same trail, but that's what you'll find in Soberanes canyon. |
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Along the way you'll see bunch grasses, annual wildflowers, and prickly pear cactus, as well as rust-and lime-colored lichens adorning banded rocks flecked with fool's gold. |
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I ate Indian food in a strip mall surrounded by prickly pear cactus and watched movies at the three-story theater that squeezed out the independent downtown joint. |
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They also, much like peccaries, eat the cladophylls of prickly pear, the leaflike pads where the cactus stores water to survive droughts. |
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Betalain acid ascorbic phenolic contents and antioxidant properties of purple red yellow and white cactus pears. |
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I wouldn't mind throwing it away if it's cactus except for the VCR part which works fine, so then I'd be up for a new VCR as well. |
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There are cottonwoods, Russian olives, and in spring, wildflowers and prickly pear cactus in bloom. |
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With the first shot, came the mental image of having seized a concupiscent hedgehog or barrel cactus. |
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Like jalapeno peppers and guacamole, cactus is usually eaten as a meal accompaniment or as part of a mixed salad. |
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Hence that alien grin, which looked as though a coat-hanger had been put in your mouth and Colorado's biggest cactus rammed up your jacksy. |
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At any rate there flourished by the curbing, sure enough, a wide and very stabby cactus garden, extending Tartar hospitality. |
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He leaned down to inspect a white-quilled cactus, and then spotted a different kind with skinnier branches and only a few drab spines. |
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Wild vegetation runs from tropical rainforest to arid grasslands with cactus, with cypress trees along rivers and other surface water. |
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Prickly pear is a cactus, you have to peel it before eating it to remove the spines and the tough skin. |
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The Mexica moved to an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco, where an eagle nested on a nopal cactus. |
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There are various types of orchids native to the state along with a native species of cactus. |
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Other plants found on the control sites include soapweed, sand sagebrush, and prickly pear cactus. |
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The understory comprises bromeliad and cactus species as well as hardy shrubs like Schinus fasciculatus. |
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There are ecosystems such as riverine forests, wetlands, savannas, and cactus stands as well. |
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Saguaro National Park boasts Many birds, including Gila woodpecker, gilded flicker, cactus wren, phainopepla, and elf and screech owls. |
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Piles of debris around a cactus, bush, or tree are signs that a pack rat is in residence. |
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Common birds include the owl, roadrunner, cactus wren, and various species of hawk. |
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Plant life in the dry climate of the lower Sonoran zone contains a diversity of native cactus, mesquite, and paloverde. |
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A still summer night a world away in a house that smells of cactus and dust and musty kapok. |
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If you maintain cool evening temperatures in your home, then cyclamen, chrysanthemums, Christmas cactus and Kalanchoes are for you. |
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The cyclamen and the Christmas cactus can tolerate cool drafts infinitely better than desert poinsettias. |
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Be sure to bring plenty of water and be cautious of cactus spines, particularly chollas. |
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Pot up with compost and topdress with a layer of cactus dressing or very small gravel. |
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Soapweed was ground into feed, and spines were burned off prickly pear cactus for the same purpose. |
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He made a leap for the prickliest portion of the cactus, grimacing in half-expectation of a crotchful of needles. |
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Of course Christmas wouldn't be the same without Indian azaleas and Schlumbergera, widely known as the Christmas cactus. |
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The prickly pear cactus is the only plant in the world to contain all 24 known betalain antioxidants. |
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Female moths lay about 40-100 eggs one on top of the other to form an eggstick that is attached to the tip of a cactus spine or directly to a cladode. |
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From Native Americans, Westerners learned the practice of eating cactus fruit from the myriad species of opuntia that occupy the Chihuahuan, Sonoran, and Mojave desert lands. |
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The latter even lived in the knackered exhaust pipe of an abandoned 1940s jalopy, which had also been conveniently dumped right next to the world's most telegenic cactus. |
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The prickly pear cactus is an introduced species in Australia. |
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Shortgrass prairie is dominated by blue grama, buffalo grass, scarlet globemallow, prickly-pear cactus, rabbitbrush, broom snakeweed, and spreading buckwheat. |
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The walking cactus belongs to a group of extinct worm-like creatures called lobopodians, which are thought to have been a relative of today's velvet worms. |
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A tiny, intricate bromeliad or cactus just begs to be viewed up close. |
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I'm really not sure about cactus and Venus flytrap bouquets. |
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The juice has Yellow papaya puree, Acai fruit extract, Mangosteen, Noni fruit, Pomegranate, Beet, Bilberry fruit, Lycil woflberry fruit, Nopal cactus, and Papaya leaf. |
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Traditional beverages include pulque, aguamiel, aguardiente and mezcal as well as a purely local beverage called colonche, made by fermenting a cactus fruit. |
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On the front nine, Jones stuck to Woods like a cholla cactus. |
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Certain areas of the state have large orchards producing peaches, strawberries, cactus pear, avocado, grapes, apples, quince, walnuts, apricots and guava. |
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I have prepared Texas chili, three-bean salsa, cowboy corn cakes, pigs in a blanket, cactus cutout cookies and an ingenious birthday cake in the shape of a boot. |
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To my mind, the published form of Dyckia estevesii can be likened to the monstrose crested forms of cactus where the meristem only divides distichously. |
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Some other trees like the cactus and aloe veras, have other means of protection or feel no need for it and they grow much faster and easier that way. |
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Peyote a small spineless cactus has been a major source of psychedelic mescaline and has probably been used by Native Americans for at least five thousand years. |
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The range was scattered with creosote bush and barrel cactus. |
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Another excellent cleanser and toner is aloe gel or fresh aloe vera cactus pulp. Cut off 1 inch of aloe vera rib, slit open and rub yellowish pulp directly on the skin. |
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Or the Christmas cactus I bought at a church fair some 28 years ago. |
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Such plants include weeping yucca, juniper, barrel cactus and rosemary. |
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