Contest 43: Related Photos and Discussion
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Contest 43: Related Photos and Discussion
Please discuss and post all related photos to Contest 43: Opuntiads here. Thanks.
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This is the whole plant of my close up shot for the contest. Cylindropuntia imbricata
I've never seen one before with blossoms.
The plant is hidden under a tree in its shade. But there was many buds on it.
Near this place we've found many Echinocereus rigidissimus hidden in dry grass and there was my avatar pic taken.
I've never seen one before with blossoms.
The plant is hidden under a tree in its shade. But there was many buds on it.
Near this place we've found many Echinocereus rigidissimus hidden in dry grass and there was my avatar pic taken.
Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.
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Bruno, I think your flowering picture is Opuntia azurea (aka Opuntia macrocentra, perhaps macrocentra 'minor'). O santa-rita has a pure paler yellow flower.
In general I wish I understood Opuntia gosseliniana, chlorotica, santa-rita and violacea better. It seems like there's quite a lot of confusion around these forms. (and the confusion does bleed over into the macrocentra/azurea complex of plants as well).
peterb
In general I wish I understood Opuntia gosseliniana, chlorotica, santa-rita and violacea better. It seems like there's quite a lot of confusion around these forms. (and the confusion does bleed over into the macrocentra/azurea complex of plants as well).
peterb
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Thank you Peter, I' ve got this plant from a reliable source as santa-rita, and noticed over time that the flower was more like macrocentra. I also had a look at several books but couldn' t sort this out. Whatever the name it is a wonderful and rewarding plant, thriving in the open year around here in Rome. It is however much similar to that posted by John C. The flower looking the same, some of the pads with long banded spines which are wanting in others...
Ciao
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bruno
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Well I have about a billion pictures that I could have posted in this. I went a different route and put the C. fulgida in the rain as my entry.
I have a few more that I will post in here as my 2nd choices.
this is a nice clump of PP at the local post office here in Black Canyon City. I drive past that darn near every day!
here is another from the same rainy day that I liked a lot! I almost put this one instead, but I decided on the other (maybe stupidly LoL)
this is one that I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to post or not. It's a spider eating a fly on a C. fulgida mammillata var cristate. (it's the mother plant of my cutting!)
And finally the last one I was considering!
the bugs inside the flower helping to pollinate this O. phaeancantha are interesting!
Good Luck Everyone!
There are some nice pictures in there already!
I have a few more that I will post in here as my 2nd choices.
this is a nice clump of PP at the local post office here in Black Canyon City. I drive past that darn near every day!
here is another from the same rainy day that I liked a lot! I almost put this one instead, but I decided on the other (maybe stupidly LoL)
this is one that I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to post or not. It's a spider eating a fly on a C. fulgida mammillata var cristate. (it's the mother plant of my cutting!)
And finally the last one I was considering!
the bugs inside the flower helping to pollinate this O. phaeancantha are interesting!
Good Luck Everyone!
There are some nice pictures in there already!
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
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