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#ocotillo — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ocotillo, aggregated by home.social.

  1. I thought ocotillo were solely indigenous to the Sonoran desert, but according to our Volunteer Park [Plant] Conservatory, this one is from Madagascar.

    It was scary-pretty.

    #plants #ocotillo

  2. We do indeed have Fall foliage here in Tucson! Here’s my latest Perpetual Journal entry showing a range of colors of leaves on a single Ocotillo, along with last year’s PJ entry from this same week, of colorful local Anaheim chiles.

    #SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #Ocotillo #Fall #Autumn #chile #FarmersMarket

  3. I enjoy seeing Ocotillo canes bend waaay over when a bird lands on them, like this Gambel’s Quail, and then spring back into position when the bird takes off! (From my Perpetual Journal; caterpillar = art/text from this week a year ago).

    #SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #Ocotillo #bird #birds #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #quail