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Arizona vegetation is tough and extremely well defended (as anyone knows who has brushed carelessly against a prickly-pear cactus).
Boing Boing 2009
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The story of the national emblem (used on coins, documents and the flag), an eagle devouring a serpent, while perched on a prickly-pear cactus, is well known.
Did You Know? Some national symbols in Mexico are not what they seem 2008
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The story of the national emblem (used on coins, documents and the flag), an eagle devouring a serpent, while perched on a prickly-pear cactus, is well known.
Did You Know? Some national symbols in Mexico are not what they seem 2008
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The predominant natural plant communities include California sagebrush series, Mixed chaparral shrublands, Coast live oak series, and Coast prickly-pear series.
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Shrublands: Bigpod ceanothus series, Black sage series, California sagebrush series, California sagebrush - black sage series, Chamise series, Coast prickly-pear series, Mixed sage series, Scrub oak series, White sage series.
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A few minutes later, he picked up the card from the table and walked outside and over a bare knoll dotted with clusters of prickly-pear cactus.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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A few minutes later, he picked up the card from the table and walked outside and over a bare knoll dotted with clusters of prickly-pear cactus.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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A few minutes later, he picked up the card from the table and walked outside and over a bare knoll dotted with clusters of prickly-pear cactus.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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Having swallowed up once quaint villages like Coyoacan and San Angel to the point where it now includes extensive nopal (prickly-pear cactus) farms within its municipal jurisdiction, Mexico City is essentially a microcosm of the rest of Mexico.
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Having swallowed up once quaint villages like Coyoacan and San Angel to the point where it now includes extensive nopal (prickly-pear cactus) farms within its municipal jurisdiction, Mexico City is essentially a microcosm of the rest of Mexico.
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