Baja Forever Part 4

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:43 am

The desert is amazing just off the unimproved road that goes from the main highway to the Mission at San Borja, a few miles north of Bahia de Los Angeles:

Several similar but recognizably different hook-spined mammillarias grow under brush and in rock cracks here as well, but all the pictures came out very blurry.

South of Bahia de Los Angeles there are some amazing desert environments also, on the road to La Mona:

(including the first appearance of huge stands of Opuntia invicta).

Peterb

Post by **daiv** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:08 am

F. gracilis for the fero here, I think.

Post by **daiv** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:24 pm

The cholla in the first shot is C. molesta -It seems a fitting name, because if you get too close, they will definitely molest-ya!

I'm thinking the Ferocacti here are not F. gracilis, but F. peninsulae.

Loph · Post by **Loph** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:29 am

i saw a few cacti while travellign the states when younger, but darn did i miss out! the only things i saw close to that size was in peoples gardens...Good looking!!!