Baja Forever Part 5

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:49 am

Palo Adan (Fouqueria diguettii):

Sunrise on the Sea of Cortez (not cacti, but a nice finishing touch...)

If you want to see more, here's the photobucket album link:

http://s89.photobucket.com/albums/k209/ ... ja%202006/

thanks, and if you can ID anything not ID-ed, go for it.

Peterb

perrycornish · Post by **perrycornish** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:28 pm

Peterb, thank you

I very much enjoyed my tour of Baja, it looks and sounds as though you had a great time, wow! There are certainly some spectacular and fascinating cacti there!

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:51 pm

Nice! Thanks for the tour Peterb.
Im amazed by the size of that pachycereus pringlei in post#3.WOW

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:36 am

Is that a flower in the first pic?

Mark

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:19 pm

Hi Mark- In general the members of Fouqueria down there were flowering or in fruit. Very leafed out and green too. I think the Palo Adan pic shows both flower and the red fruit.

Tony- yeah, that cardon is really something. One wonders when the seed germinated. I don't have a reliable idea of the age of a cardon of that size, but it must be very old indeed. The same is true for the Ferocactus cylindraceus (thanks for the ID daiv!) that is taller than I am.

peterb

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:34 am

Ok thank you.

Mark