CURSED CHOLLA; DEVIL CACTUS (Opuntia Stanlyi) 



A creeping crawling mass of rough hairy spines and sheaths, stout sharp 

 swords, dangerous and effective in harshly repulsing advance of animal or 

 ignorant human, is the Devil Cactus or Cursed Cholla, a veritable fortress 

 on the desert. 





BUCKHORN CHOLLA (Opuntia acanthocarpa) 



Over the arid sandy or gravelly soils of the southwestern desert, this fierce 

 Cholla has fought his way and proved his right to existence, asking nothing 

 from the hand of man and having little to give. 



