Nopales (prickly pears from the genus Opuntia) and cardos (chollas) grow in most desert habitats, and one may enjoy a variety of tuna (prickly pear fruits) colors, sizes, and flavors in Durangan desert. ❋ Unknown (2008)
For example, packrats can handle even the spiniest chollas and rarely get stuck. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Okay - those bottom things are either chollas or hydras, not shamrocks! ❋ Jen (2009)
Who's the Dlisted gal who does chollas with photoshop? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Eastern Street curved around the ancient lomas, and the nopal cactus and chollas sprouted throughout the crevices of the hills. ❋ Helena María Viramontes (2007)
The Curved Bill Thrasher builds large twig nests in our chollas, have accipiter orange eyes, sings a beautiful song, and that bill from the Cretaceous makes it a favorite. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Inland, at the mouth of Canon de las Palmas, is a flat sandy plain covered sparsely with giant cardon cacti, chollas, smoke trees, agaves, elephant trees, palo verdes, and a small stand of the blue fan palms that give the canyon its name. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
The harsh terrain beyond the wash undulated in seas of bleached tans and clayey reds and yellows, bristling with barrel cacti, chollas, and cat-claw bushes, alive with scorpions and snakes. ❋ Janet Dailey (1985)
There was a Christmas cactus and a prickly pear and a fishhook cactus and a purple hedgehog cactus and a night-blooming cereus, and several chollas with barbaric spikes and others whose spines I dreaded and whose names I did not know. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1971)
Now and again the stout vamps of her hunting boots were pierced by chollas and, half frantic in her haste, she was forced to stop and struggle to pull out the thorns. ❋ Honor�� Morrow (1910)
He is then at some pains to understand his visitor's extravagant interest and delight over loquats, chiramoyas, alligator pears, tamarinds, guavas, the blooming of century plants, the fruits of chollas and the like. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
The hill I had to climb was steep and covered with chollas, so I didn't get along very fast. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
He hung on until he was drug into a bunch of _chollas_, and then he had to let go. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
There are many varieties of chollas and all are decorative. ❋ Robert Sterling Yard (1903)
The ball landed in a bed of jumping chollas that had fallen to the ground, and Ogilvy didn't bother removing it to keep from getting pricked by the needles. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Stray from the fairways and this is a semi-arid landscape of pinons, junipers, chollas, prickly pear and rocky dirt.
