Cereus Shorts
Description: The saguaro (pronounced swauro) is Cereus giganteus - giant cactus - the icon of the American west - grows only in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, northern Mexico, and a tiny slice of California. Indigenous people in the area often thought of them as people, and indeed they are - because of their strong individuality and bodies full of water like humans. They symbolize strength, resilience, and sovereignty found in rare, magical forms of being. Providing home and sustenance for countless other desert creatures, they are a reminder of the miracle of life in its most wondrous ways.
Description: This dreamlike botanical art form is taken from the publication 'The Temple Of Flora' or 'Garden of Nature', written by Robert Thornton, 1768 - 1837, an English physician and botanical writer. The art work for his publication was by botanical artist Philip Reinagle. Featured here is the Night Blowing Cereus.
Description: This colorful design features a funny cartoon character of a bacteria with a petri plate cell culture surrounded by several types of bacterial microbes. This funny biology graphic illustration will appeal to microbiologists who spend time in the bacteriology laboratory studying and culturing microbial organisms such as E. coli or B. cereus and other forms of microscopic life.
