Echinocereus rigidissimus var. rubrispinus

When I bought this cactus several years ago, I got it for the form; plus, the pretty cream & red flesh and needles. I had no idea that it would ever bloom. This year, it suddenly did! And what a bloom. The wild origin for this cactus species is Mexico. But this one is blooming for me in my US home to help celebrate America's 250th Anniversary

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Looking Back at this day in America's History
June 11, 1776: Committee of Five Appointed

The Committee of Five of the Second Continental Congress was a group of five members who drafted and presented to the full Congress in Pennsylvania State House what would become the United States Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Jefferson (Virginia) John Adams (Massachusetts) Benjamin Franklin (Pennsylvania) Roger Sherman (Connecticut) Robert R. Livingston (New York)