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A bit further up Brant Road, I stop to look across the tortoise's habitat, and down toward Ivanpah Dry Lake

7758-brant-road.jpg I pick up the tortoise and put him down amidst some flowers, encelias perhaps, off the roadThumbnailsBrant Road dips down again to cross a wash, with the adjacent train tracks crossing the wash on an old concrete bridgeI pick up the tortoise and put him down amidst some flowers, encelias perhaps, off the roadThumbnailsBrant Road dips down again to cross a wash, with the adjacent train tracks crossing the wash on an old concrete bridgeI pick up the tortoise and put him down amidst some flowers, encelias perhaps, off the roadThumbnailsBrant Road dips down again to cross a wash, with the adjacent train tracks crossing the wash on an old concrete bridgeI pick up the tortoise and put him down amidst some flowers, encelias perhaps, off the roadThumbnailsBrant Road dips down again to cross a wash, with the adjacent train tracks crossing the wash on an old concrete bridgeI pick up the tortoise and put him down amidst some flowers, encelias perhaps, off the roadThumbnailsBrant Road dips down again to cross a wash, with the adjacent train tracks crossing the wash on an old concrete bridge

I haven't seen any pink cactus flowers that the tortoise might have eaten, but I do some pink blooms of Range ratany. Do tortoises eat those flowers?