thank you both so much....i am impressed with your skill and knowledge at identifying plants.........i do so hope that the echinopsis is one that has those very long white flowers that come out at night i well remember many years ago going out to my tiny unlit unheated plastic greenhouse with a torc...

i recently was given a bowl garden containing 3 plants, that had been kept in a bathroom for a number of years. when i got it the whole thing was white........covered in talcum powder :shock: :shock: i sprayed the whole thing with a hand held water spray to remove as much as i could, then dug them o...

as a total beginner so to speak ........there seems to be 2 different opuntia's there to me........one with round bits and short spines........another with flat bits and long spines.........are you sure that there's only 2 different plants in there

i spent the last 5 years doing internet based medical research .........similar to seti......only looking for a cure for diseases.....message boards i can handle........currently looking for a cure for malaria........however, i digress.....i'm going to be looking for lots of help with my cacti.........

How do you make a photo part of the body of the post, as opposed to inserting a url that takes you to the stored image on a photo storage website? I see that people are making photos part of their posts. How do you do that? Copy and paste does not seem to work. i will use your avatar as an example ...

these are the ten named ones .......with some of the un-named mammillaria's in the background.

thanks for the welcome.......i bought 10 plants in a sale at a local garden center......to add to the few i already had....they all seem to be mammillaria's of different types.....all without names.....looks like i need a trip to the id section :lol: just bought another 10 named plants too.....and s...

hows this ?? .........not the best pic i've ever taken just started collecting again after a break of 20 years i'm guessing its a mammilaria of some kind.........