Here are some close-ups of the fruit and the not-yet-blooming flower of the sacred datura plant (Datura wrightii). The flowers are huge and beautiful when they bloom in the afternoon and through the night, attracting their hawkmoth pollinators.
Be careful: the plant is poisonous (and/or hallucinogenic) and can be irritating even to the skin.
I took these pictures between Roosevelt Lake and Young, Arizona.
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