#ocotillos

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Ocotillos (Fouquieria splendens) and Santa Rita Mountains. Pima County, Arizona. by troupial\ “Ocotillos are most abundant on stony slopes above 3,000 feet of elevation. The long stems produce tiny leaves within 48 hours of a rain. These are then soon shed until the next rainfall triggers their regrowth.”

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#Ocotillo bushes like the ones in focus here have the ability to shed their leaves during severe drought or when there’s a lack of water. If it’s wet in the spring they sprout beautiful red flowers on their vine tips. The Ocotillo is very thorny and doesn’t qualify as a cactus. In the background are the well known #Saguaros of the American Southwest. . Photographed with a @fujifilmx_us #XT100 And a #Fujifilm50230mm lens. . #arizona🌵 #ocotillos #az #valleyofthesun #fujifilm #supertelephoto #SonoranDesert #southernaz #arizonahighways #saguarocactus #ocotillodesert (at Apache Junction, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ZVBbthNr_/?igshid=wzh83rlm30n7

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Fouquieria splendens - Ocotillo - Pure Silver Necklace with Coral https://www.etsy.com/listing/1077877787/fouquieria-splendens-ocotillo Ocotillo is such an incredible plant.  I learned a lot about it while collecting my samples.  Such as the thorny parts start as a modified leaf, which is what I captured in this necklace. I feel like this is a good time to bring up asking a plant before you pick it.  The first two plants I met were in people's yards.  The first one was still in dormancy.  The second was in bloom, but it didn't feel right to collect from it so I didn't.  But I stopped and looked down and there was a perfect flower at my feet.  The next plant I met and intended to harvest from, I asked the plant and a leaf cluster pretty much fell off into my hand.  It isn't always so clear like this, but I wanted to share these special moments with you as a reminder to be gentle and aware with the world around you instead of just taking what you want without thought. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk 🌱

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Fouquieria splendens - Ocotillo - Pure Silver Necklace with Coral https://www.etsy.com/listing/1077877787/fouquieria-splendens-ocotillo Ocotillo is such an incredible plant.  I learned a lot about it while collecting my samples.  Such as the thorny parts start as a modified leaf, which is what I captured in this necklace. I feel like this is a good time to bring up asking a plant before you pick it.  The first two plants I met were in people's yards.  The first one was still in dormancy.  The second was in bloom, but it didn't feel right to collect from it so I didn't.  But I stopped and looked down and there was a perfect flower at my feet.  The next plant I met and intended to harvest from, I asked the plant and a leaf cluster pretty much fell off into my hand.  It isn't always so clear like this, but I wanted to share these special moments with you as a reminder to be gentle and aware with the world around you instead of just taking what you want without thought. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk 🌱

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Fouquieria splendens - Ocotillo - Pure Silver Necklace with Coral Ocotillo is such an incredible plant.  I learned a lot about it while collecting my samples.  Such as the thorny parts start as a modified leaf, which is what I captured in this necklace. I feel like this is a good time to bring up asking a plant before you pick it.  The first two plants I met were in people's yards.  The first one was still in dormancy.  The second was in bloom, but it didn't feel right to collect from it so I didn't.  But I stopped and looked down and there was a perfect flower at my feet.  The next plant I met and intended to harvest from, I asked the plant and a leaf cluster pretty much fell off into my hand.  It isn't always so clear like this, but I wanted to share these special moments with you as a reminder to be gentle and aware with the world around you instead of just taking what you want without thought. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk 🌱 https://www.etsy.com/listing/1077877787/fouquieria-splendens-ocotillo

[quintessentialarts]

Fouquieria splendens - Ocotillo - Pure Silver Necklace with Coral Ocotillo is such an incredible plant.  I learned a lot about it while collecting my samples.  Such as the thorny parts start as a modified leaf, which is what I captured in this necklace. I feel like this is a good time to bring up asking a plant before you pick it.  The first two plants I met were in people's yards.  The first one was still in dormancy.  The second was in bloom, but it didn't feel right to collect from it so I didn't.  But I stopped and looked down and there was a perfect flower at my feet.  The next plant I met and intended to harvest from, I asked the plant and a leaf cluster pretty much fell off into my hand.  It isn't always so clear like this, but I wanted to share these special moments with you as a reminder to be gentle and aware with the world around you instead of just taking what you want without thought. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk 🌱 https://www.etsy.com/listing/1077877787/fouquieria-splendens-ocotillo

[rjzimmerman]

What's happening to California's hummingbirds? Rising temperatures threaten their source of food

Ocotillos are blooming too soon, leaving migrating hummingbirds without food.

Excerpt:

Imagine going to your neighborhood grocery store and discovering no food. Even worse, imagine every grocery store within a day’s drive was without food. What would you do?

For migrating hummingbirds, the grocery store is the ocotillo and the food is the nectar held within its blossoms. As the tiny birds arrive each spring, they are finding more and more ocotillos are not open for business.

Due to climate change, some ocotillos are blooming too soon, before the arrival of migrating hummingbirds.

The problem isn’t that ocotillos are not blooming. They are. It’s that some are blooming too soon, before the arrival of migrating hummingbirds. A warmer environment is the explanation, a phenomenon associated with changing climatic conditions first brought to the public’s attention in the early 1980s.

Hummingbirds matter. They are metabolic wonders that have already taught us much about animal and human physiology. Their renowned nightly torpor makes them unusual in the avian world. More importantly, their incredibly rapid wing beats and status as the smallest birds on our planet require they maintain unusually high metabolic rates, higher than any other group of vertebrates. Changes in the gas content of the atmosphere and patterns of plant growth that humans might not initially detect are more likely to impact hummingbirds first. Their fate, in effect, acts as an early warning system for significant changes in the environment.

In 2007, Janice Bowers of the U.S. Geological Survey, brought the issue home to our own Sonoran Desert. She was one of the first scientists to provide evidence Sonoran Desert shrubs, including ocotillo, began blooming nearly 40 days earlier than they did a century ago. What’s more, her study suggested ocotillos and other shrubs ended their bloom more than a month earlier than in previous decades. This could be bad news for hummingbirds. In years of drought, the only reliable nectar-producing plant is the ocotillo and thus late-arriving hummingbirds would not find the energy source they need to complete their migratory journey. A late-season blooming collapse could be far reaching. The range of the ocotillo covers a band from west Texas to the Coachella Valley and so there would be disastrous consequences for most hummingbird species since all but one migrates through the Southwest and northern Mexico.