The Giant Prickly Pear Cactus Tree

Cacti grow large here in Arizona.  However, usually they don’t grow beyond a certain level – the size seen up in the featured image, in fact.  I normally don’t see them grow more than four or feet tall at most, usually less.

That was, until I saw this old girl.

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There she is, roughly eight to ten feet tall, and so big and old that she’s actually developed bark on her trunk.  Now THAT’S a cactus.  Here’s another view from the same walk.

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It’s a little hard to tell scale because of the angle, but she’s big.  Dare I say…

 

…a Giant?

 

via Daily Prompt: Giant

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/giant/