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Location: Corona, California USA [Zone 10]
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 Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:25 pm Post subject: Contest 41: Clusters/Clumps/Mounds |
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Welcome to a new month and a new contest.
The theme this month is Clusters/Clumps/Mounds
Cactus or succulent in any situation depicting multihead/multistem plants. Must be a single plant, not a cluster of individuals. Dust off your cespitose plants and show them off!
Prize:
To the winner goes, A $10 gift certificate towards any CoronaCactus Nursery purchase. (Plants, tools, Pots, labels, etc.)
NOTE: For members outside of the USA non-plant prizes can only be awarded.
Deadline for submissions will be Monday March 15th, 2010
Please reference these 2 threads for the changes made for 2010.
New Format
Contest Schedule
Click for Contest Rules
Good Luck to all!!
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daiv
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I've got one for this contest! Since I couldn't join in last month, I am all primed and ready to go. 
Anyway, so many clumps, but I think this pic of two E. coccineus clumps shows how the clumps fit in with the surroundings:
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Saguaro123
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Location: San Jose, California (Zone 9b)
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Deuterocohnia breviflora
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apacholek10
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Location: Jacksonville, FL
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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Mam. Elongata...don't mind the frost/sunburn damage 
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hablu
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:47 am Post subject: |
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Another Mam.
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Ralf
Joined: 17 Jan 2010
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Location: Germany, Thuringia [Zone 6b]
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:03 am Post subject: |
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A small mound of Mammillaria prolifera. The plant is more than 20 years old.
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dustin0352
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Location: East Coast Florida
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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Echinopsis hybrid of some sort. Only plant I have clumping enough to qualify.
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peterb
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Location: Tempe, Arizona, USA
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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Echinocactus polycephalus ssp. xeranthemoides, Navajo Bridge, Arizona:
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Cactelders
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Lee
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
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Location: Havre de Grace, MD
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:15 pm Post subject: Gymnocactus Viereckii |
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Gymnocactus Viereckii over 20 years old from my collection
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jeffrey6115
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Location: Rockhall, MD
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Rebutia perplexa
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Emilio
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Location: Aarschot - BELGIUM
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Here my photo of Monanthes polyphylla in Tenerife.
Hope you like it.
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RobR
Joined: 07 Dec 2009
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Location: Tucson, AZ
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:36 pm Post subject: Echinocereus Arizonicus at the type locality near Globe, AZ. |
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| My entry for the contest.
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Otto
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John C
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Location: DFW, Texas
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:20 am Post subject: |
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Echinocereus in my outdoor garden.
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