"Trapiche", south of Vallenar. Chile.
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"Trapiche", south of Vallenar. Chile.
Hello,
In this arid "ghost" town, beside the road, you can find fresh cheese and pure "oliva" oil. is very poor and not all people have water to drink, some people who lives in the valleys must go to the "town" for buy or search for water.
in that area if you are lucky you can find Eriosyce simulans, but there are many E. heinrichiana (flat bodies)
and very interesting "thelocephala", according to Kattermann is Eriosyce tenebrica (FK402)
In this arid "ghost" town, beside the road, you can find fresh cheese and pure "oliva" oil. is very poor and not all people have water to drink, some people who lives in the valleys must go to the "town" for buy or search for water.
in that area if you are lucky you can find Eriosyce simulans, but there are many E. heinrichiana (flat bodies)
and very interesting "thelocephala", according to Kattermann is Eriosyce tenebrica (FK402)
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Excellent pictures. Looks like the plants could use some water too. I'd guess that since Mr. Kattermann is a contributor to the upcoming New Cactus Lexicon, those wonderful old genus names are not going to come back soon.
By the way, any news on the new books? I've heard rumors that it is being delivered in the UK.
By the way, any news on the new books? I've heard rumors that it is being delivered in the UK.
Buck Hemenway
Spiniflores, These are wonderful pictures! I have added http://www.eriosyce.info to my favorites. I have recently taken interest in Chilean cacti and your website has the best photos I've ever seen of these plants growing in their natural habitat.
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hello
the columnar cacti that you can see in the picture are, mainly, Eulychnia braviflora
few km. to the north, near mine Algarrobo (abandoned place!)
and to the west, near the coast:
(left: Echinopsis deserticola; right: very special form of Eulychnia breviflora (?))
if you search well... you can find "mitical" plants... like "thelophala fankhauseri" Ritter
thanks for all your comments!
Florencia y Juan
the columnar cacti that you can see in the picture are, mainly, Eulychnia braviflora
few km. to the north, near mine Algarrobo (abandoned place!)
and to the west, near the coast:
(left: Echinopsis deserticola; right: very special form of Eulychnia breviflora (?))
if you search well... you can find "mitical" plants... like "thelophala fankhauseri" Ritter
thanks for all your comments!
Florencia y Juan
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Hello
that area is very dry, only near the coast, the fog and the marine humidity "add water".
and sometimes it rains over there, but very few.. I will check in my books better.
and about the Eulychnia: it is not saint-pieana
These pictures are from Trapiche/Domeyko (south of Vallenar, and acording to Ritter saint-pieana is from Chañaral (too much km. to the north of Vallenar)
maybe they are "relacionadas" with Eulychnia acida var. procumbens Ritter
here more pictures of the "Eulychnia sp."
in high resolution
left: Echinopsis deserticola
right: "Eulychnia sp."
with Copiapoa coquimbana
the ONLY seedling that I saw
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about the E. saint-piana
near Pan de Azucar National Park, north of Chañaral:
detail of the apex
and the habitat (very far away from "trapiche" -the name of this post-)
Copiapoa grandiflora in the base of E. saint-pieana
Copiapoa cinerea ssp. columna-alba in the background
veryyyy big image, enjoy a real view!!!!
http://static.flickr.com/90/218802958_bb0f67cec0_o.jpg
and from other location, at the north side of Pan de Azucar
saludos desde Chile
Juan Pablo Acosta
that area is very dry, only near the coast, the fog and the marine humidity "add water".
and sometimes it rains over there, but very few.. I will check in my books better.
and about the Eulychnia: it is not saint-pieana
These pictures are from Trapiche/Domeyko (south of Vallenar, and acording to Ritter saint-pieana is from Chañaral (too much km. to the north of Vallenar)
maybe they are "relacionadas" with Eulychnia acida var. procumbens Ritter
here more pictures of the "Eulychnia sp."
in high resolution
left: Echinopsis deserticola
right: "Eulychnia sp."
with Copiapoa coquimbana
the ONLY seedling that I saw
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about the E. saint-piana
near Pan de Azucar National Park, north of Chañaral:
detail of the apex
and the habitat (very far away from "trapiche" -the name of this post-)
Copiapoa grandiflora in the base of E. saint-pieana
Copiapoa cinerea ssp. columna-alba in the background
veryyyy big image, enjoy a real view!!!!
http://static.flickr.com/90/218802958_bb0f67cec0_o.jpg
and from other location, at the north side of Pan de Azucar
saludos desde Chile
Juan Pablo Acosta
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Thank you so much for the photo's. I'm very astonished about your landscape; so totally different to what I'm used to. can't get enough of it to look at. keep coming those pics. thank you. Harry
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hablu wrote:Thank you so much for the photo's. I'm very astonished about your landscape; so totally different to what I'm used to. can't get enough of it to kook at. keep coming those pics. thank you. Harry
YES HARRY, SO TOTALY DIFFERENT... CHILE WITH HOLLAND...
If you dont know cannabis is iligal in Trapiche!! NO WAY!!!!
and do you think that that place always was a desert?
look this rocks that fall from the "wall" of this "break-valley/Quebrada"
not always with 2 shells
here you can enjoy in high resolution
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cactushorr ... 243827631/
Saludos!
Juan
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Florencia y Juan,
You are both doing a wonderful thing down there. Worknig towards educating people about those plants and pushing towards conservation. Your pictures are absolutely stunning and a window into another world for many of us.
Thank you very much!
Daiv
You are both doing a wonderful thing down there. Worknig towards educating people about those plants and pushing towards conservation. Your pictures are absolutely stunning and a window into another world for many of us.
Thank you very much!
Daiv
All Cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are Cacti
Hello-
Perhaps as a marker of how remote and untrammeled the area that Juan and Florencia are sending pictures from, a fairly extensive amount of digging on the web yielded very little information. I gather it's a mining region?
Curious where it is in relation to Antofagasta?
Absolutely gorgeous pictures, thanks so much.
Peterb
Perhaps as a marker of how remote and untrammeled the area that Juan and Florencia are sending pictures from, a fairly extensive amount of digging on the web yielded very little information. I gather it's a mining region?
Curious where it is in relation to Antofagasta?
Absolutely gorgeous pictures, thanks so much.
Peterb