(1) We photograph cholla and saguaro and ocotillo .(2) Twining snapdragon winds through the Calhoun's ocotillo fence and license plate collection.(3) While cactus flowers have many petals, the ocotillo 's red flowers have only five, united at their base to form a tube.(4) The most common shrubs are creosote bush, ocotillo , and bur sage.(5) He used barbed wire to attach crossbeams to posts and bailing wire to lash ocotillo canes to the crossbeams.(6) As we began descending from mountains into the desert, I saw agaves, cacti, and ocotillo thriving on the dry, rugged slopes.(7) The spindly, 15-foottall branches of the ocotillo , bare and dead-looking things under dry conditions, are fully leafed out.(8) Flanked by ocotillo and prickly pear, you'll make an easy half-day ride to the Telephone Canyon backcountry campsite.(9) Though traditional ramadas were made with mesquite poles, ocotillo canes, and saguaro, these materials are not readily available in nurseries.(10) You'll traverse a series of high valleys, ravines, and washes filled with a variety of plants, including purple barrel cactus and stands of ocotillos .(11) But the bucks had swapped places in the ocotillos .(12) Yet in another area hit by a recent heavy rain, the ironwood trees and the spiny ocotillos are flush with new green leaves.
