Cactus Bush, For Real?

 

I had thought about taking a picture of this bush myself on my way home from work.  Currently you see more bush than cactus.  In fact you can only see about 5 of the paddles sticking out of a much larger bush than you can see here.  This is actually a street view image copied and posted as a jpg.

About a year ago there was no bush and it was just a cactus on the side of the road.

If you had seen this as an image on social media would you have expected it to be AI?  We watched a video recently on how to tell if an image is AI or not and this one might at first hit some of those alerts if you don't realize what you're looking at.  For instance the shadows on the inlet protection walls look a little  off except for the fact that the wall is vertical that the shadow is falling on.  This was probably taken around 8:00 in the morning in the late spring, looking at the grass and angle of the sun. The grass has been recently mown but the bush is obviously growing well.  The sun shadow is also mostly to the East and is high enough in the sky for a fairly steep shadow in the inlet so this is well past winter.

Do you have any pictures that at first seem like they would be AI but are pictures that you took yourself?