Contest 60 : Discussion and related Pictures

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This contest breaks the record for ratio of discussion posts to ratio of contest entries. By a long mile. :-)

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C´mon and post an entry!!! -so we can beat the ratio :lol:
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I own not one of the qualifying plants. I love them, but I never learned how to grow them. I like to look at other peoples'. :-)

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It is not necessary that the plant pictured is your own plant. (But the picture will sure be better if you do indeed love the plant pictured :))

Snap Shot at a friends collection again 8)
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Great plant Buck!
It´s the last day of the contest.
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Here's an interesting one for those who worry that their plants don't divide. According the the woman who owns Farm Tiras in Namibia, she has been visiting this Lithops for 24 years.

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Hasn´t been dividing too fast, hasn´t it? 8)
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So here's my entry if they don't need to be round.
Faucaria candida. Truth be told, this is today, it had no open flowers on closing day, Nov. 15.


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Beautiful plant Buck! And thanks for not putting us up to the decision if this was spheroid enough for the contest :? .
BTW: poll results are not looking too bad for you dude. :wink:
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Thanks Jens, and to those who voted for that nice picture of a beautiful plant.
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Congradulations Buck Hemenway!!! :cheers: :occasion7: :hello1:
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Great news! Thanks again for the votes.
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congratulations buck!
With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
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Congratulations Buck! A winning picture!
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