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                 It may not be a cactus.  It looks more like a root vegetable to me, but cactus sounds more exciting. The pan-American highway on the right.
  In general, they seem to call the unidentified anamorphs "amoebas". This looks like no amoeba I've ever seen, but like no animal either, so I called it a "thing".
               
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