More excellent submissions. Mildbil - I really like that Coryphanta. What an amazing story. It must think it is growing in the crack of a big rock or something. Pefectly happy coming out the side.
All Cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are Cacti
Thanks Daiv. My dad planted it many years ago and my mother gave it to me after he passed away in 1979. It has been in the same pot all this time, left outside, and never been fertilized.
Bill
What are the yellow-spined columnars in the back of your M. elongata clump? I have a cluster of plants that looks very much like them (not a true clump) and they were tentatively identified as a yellow spined form of Haageocereus vericolor. They are currently about 1 1/2 - 2 inch diameter and about 24 inches high. I never was fully comfortable with their ID.
Looking at them, though, maybe they are not so close...
I just think these photo contests are great to get and see the different and beautiful looking plants that are around. I am not crying or being sarcastic and speaking for myself but how can people in this latest contest compete with entries that are not from their own personal collections?? I beleive that there should be a more specific plan to some of these contests and state weather they are from personal collections or out in the wild or greenhouse grown What do ya think just my two cents
caution. don't drink beer and play with spines on the same day!
I definitely agree with Lee that nothig I have is going to be anywhere near the league of the habitat plants. Perhaps there could be two categories: domestic and wild. But I don't want to get too complicated. The contests are great regardless and even though I don't think I stand a chance in this one I still want to enter just for fun.
Its hard to get a habitat shot as good as one taken in your own greenhouse that you can stage again and again until it is stunning. The habitat plant might be bigger but it might also be an ugly mess.
I could dig out some old ones, but I bet there's nothing really good.