Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Monday, June 1, 2015

The Neon Cactus


On May 12, I posted photographs a ball cactus (sometimes called a pin-cushion cactus) in the first stage of blooming.  The flowers of the ball cactus open only during the full hours of sunlight and close-up each night.  After showing their yellow core for a few sunny days in mid-May, the flowers closed again.  Yesterday, the ball cactus flowers opened to display their full color for the first time.

The flowers on ball cactus are startlingly magenta in color—almost neon in their intensity.  Few flowers can outshine them.  Today, I am posting a couple of photographs I captured near my house.

--Mitchell Hegman

2 comments:

  1. Must be a spectacular sight. I imagine that they make up for the pricks and their lack of scent through color. Just like people.

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