Festive Ribbons On Desert Plants In Sabino Canyon >><< Red On Ocotillo and Mesquite - White On Cholla - Version 3

            These lovely ribbons are festive decorations of  this holiday season on dessert plants at the Sabino Canyon visitor center...
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ocotillo |ˌōkəˈtē(y)ō| noun (pl. ocotillos)
a spiny, scarlet-flowered desert shrub of the southwestern US and Mexico, sometimes planted as a hedge.

Fouquieria splendens
Fouquieria splendens (commonly known as ocotillo, but also referred to as coachwhip, candlewood, slimwood, desert coral, Jacob's Staff, Jacob Cactus, and vine cactus) is a plant indigenous to the Sonoran Desert in Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

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cholla |ˈCHoi(y)ə| noun
a cactus with a cylindrical stem, native to Mexico and the southwestern US.
[Genus Cylindropuntia, family Cactaceae: several species, including the densely spiny teddy-bear cholla (C. bigelovii) and the treelike cane cholla (C. spinosior).]
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: Mexican Spanish use of Spanish cholla ‘skull, head,’ of unknown origin.

Apparently I got careless and my stick entered the photo...;))

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Mesquite Tree
Mesquite (from Nahuatl mizquitl [ˈmiskit͡ɬ]) is a leguminous plant of the Prosopis genus found in northern Mexico through the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Deserts, and up into the Southwestern United States as far north as southern Kansas, west to the Colorado Desert in California, and east to the eastern fifth of Texas, where average annual rainfall is in excess of 40 in (100 cm). Several species are found in arid to semi-arid 

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