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These photos were taken in Joshua Tree National Park in CA in May 2005 during a heat wave when temperatures reached 102 F in the late afternoons all three days!
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Kay Jones > One of numerous blooms on the beaver tail cactus. It's quite amazing that such a prickly plant could produce such paper tissue delicate flowers!
Kay Jones > I found this beaver tail cactus in full bloom on top of a big rock.
Kay Jones > Joshua trees are giant members of the lily family and look like yucca plants on a tree. Most had already bloomed by the time we arrived in mid-May.
Kay Jones > Native Americans found the Joshua tree to be a great resource: leaves were worked into baskets and sandals; flower buds and seeds were eaten.
Kay Jones > Homesteaders used Joshua tree trunks and limbs to build fences and corrals.
Kay Jones > Mormon migrants named the tree after the prophet Joshua seeing the tree limbs outstretched up and westward.
Kay Jones > Joshua trees don't have tree rings. To determine a tree's age, divide the height of the tree by one-half inch, the average annual growth.
Kay Jones > These may be yucca flowers or palmilla flowers. This plant provided materials for baskets, sandals, nets, food, and the roots were soaked to make shampoo by Native Americans.
Kay Jones > Lizards, lizards, everywhere in the park! Should be called Lizard Land.
Mormon migrants named the tree after the prophet Joshua seeing the tree limbs outstretched up and westward.
> Mormon migrants named the tree after the prophet Joshua seeing the tree limbs outstretched up and westward.
Mormon migrants named the tree after the prophet Joshua seeing the tree limbs outstretched up and westward.
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