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This plant is a pretty tough customer, except for these jolly little flowers it produces. It's a small, upright desert bush that's about 90% thorns, with just a touch of greenery. All of it is covered in a thin layer of sticky, resinous sap. From that tangle it produces these one & a half inch wide blossoms. Kind of a Jekyll & Hyde plant. The lens was, as usual, the Canon 100mm IS macro, with a Canon MR-14EX ring flash for fill light.