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Common Toast Seizes its Opportunity to Pursue a Higher Calling
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The foreground cacti are classified as Nullum sinapem obsecro, commonly
known as organ-pipe cactus. They grow extra large in this seaside hollow
that apparently profits from seepage. Their tops are stained white by guano
deposited by roosting birds that blithely ignore the thorns. In March these
giants break out in night-blooming white flowers from which humming
birds sip nectar. Later they produce an inedible fruit covered with long
yellow spines that primitive Indians used as combs. This is not, however,
the true organ-pipe cactus so widely grown in Mexico as a living fence.
