"Trapiche", south of Vallenar. Chile.

Spiniflores · Post by **Spiniflores** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:23 pm

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)

Buck Hemenway · Post by **Buck Hemenway** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:04 pm

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.

Post by **daiv** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:31 pm

Great pictures again! What are the columnar cacti I see in the picture on top?

Dominique · Post by **Dominique** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:10 pm

Wonderful pictures ! Thank you.
Regarding Cactus Lexicon, it is on sale here as of today, not in many places but a nursery announced that it is available and they take orders on the net.

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:32 am

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.

Spiniflores · Post by **Spiniflores** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:14 pm

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

hablu · Post by **hablu** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:19 pm

Really beautiful pictures. Does it ever rain over there. It's looking corkdry. (We just had 130 mm in two days) greets Harry

DieTer-Xz · Post by **DieTer-Xz** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:04 am

Gosh... That Eulychnia... A rare sight to see such a beautiful specimen. They're rarely seen in cultivation, maybe because of the somewhat more difficult cultivation. Everyone who has one on my Dutch forum is having trouble with them (E. saint-pieana). Very nice pictures!

Spiniflores · Post by **Spiniflores** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:36 am

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

hablu · Post by **hablu** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:47 am

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

Spiniflores · Post by **Spiniflores** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:06 am

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

Buck Hemenway · Post by **Buck Hemenway** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:22 pm

I always am in awe of those sea creatures being trapped in rocks so high above the ocean floor and in such a dry place. Fantasic pictures Juan.

DieTer-Xz · Post by **DieTer-Xz** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:52 pm

Yes, I am aware that this one is not a E. saint-pieana. It was just an example

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Post by **daiv** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:41 pm

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

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:21 pm

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