There is no getting around it, every summer monsoon when the borderlands come to life it is so exciting! Apodanthera undulata, the crazy melon, can be easily seen along the roads and out across the land during this season. The clusters of yellow flowers give it away quickly. Those yellow flowers close up pretty quickly later in the morning. You can see the spent and tired flowers in the photo below. And check out the crazy ribbed fruit with the “disagreeable odor” as noted in Arizona Flora. Hey, it’s melon loco in the Cucurbitaceae! Yay!
I have said it ad nauseam, but I just love autumn and I love it because in southeastern Arizona it is a wonderful long...
Some personal history in poem and song. The photos are mine…well, I dug them out of the archives. That’s the very beginning of the...
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