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Restrictions is the third studio album by American rock band Cactus, released in 1971 by Atco Records. [3] The tracks "Token Chokin'", " Evil ", "Alaska" and "Sweet 16" were released as singles. The album features heavy blues-rock originals, plus a cover of the Howlin' Wolf blues standard "Evil".
Fouquieria splendens (commonly known as ocotillo / ɒ k ə ˈ t iː j oʊ / (Latin American Spanish:), but also referred to as buggywhip, coachwhip, candlewood, slimwood, desert coral, Jacob's staff, Jacob cactus, and vine cactus) is a plant indigenous to the Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, Chihuahuan Desert and Colorado Desert in the Southwestern United States (southern California, southern ...
Tristerix aphyllus parasitizes two species of cactus; Echinopsis chiloensis and Eulychnia acida, and in its adult form shows only its flowers and its fruits, bursting forth spectacularly from the columnar cacti which are its hosts. [3]
Priapulus caudatus is one of only nineteen known species in the phylum Priapulida. [2] French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described it in 1816. [1] Phylogenetic studies have indicated that scalidophorans, to which priapulids belong, are a basal clade of ecdysozoans (animals that grow by shedding their exoskeleton), and thus a sister group to all other ecdysozoans, an assortment ...
Pelecyphora minima (syn. Coryphantha minima) is a rare species of cactus known by the common names Nellie cory cactus, Nellie's pincushion cactus, birdfoot cactus, and others. It is a very popular species among cactus collectors. This is one reason why it is a highly endangered species in the wild today. [2]
Many cacti are known to be psychoactive, containing phenethylamine alkaloids such as mescaline. [1] However, the two main ritualistic (folkloric) genera are Echinopsis, of which the most psychoactive species occur in the San Pedro cactus group (including Echinopsis pachanoi, syn. Trichocereus pachanoi, Echinopsis Peruviana, syn. Trichocereus peruvianus and Echinopsis lageniformis, syn ...
Opuntioideae is a subfamily of the cactus family, Cactaceae.It contains 15 genera divided into five tribes.The subfamily encompasses roughly 220–250 species, and is geographically distributed throughout the New World from Canada, to Argentina. [3]
Stenocereus griseus is a tree-shaped cactus that grows to 6-9 meters tall with a clear trunk and upright green stems, about 9-12 centimeters in diameter, with six to ten ribs below the areoles. [2] It bears one to three central spines up to 1.5 centimeters long, the longest of which reaches 4 centimeters, and six to eleven marginal spines ...