Apache Trail
Apache Trail
Like a dust bowl up there now, the driest time of the year here. But Vlad and Jason's pics inspired me to get off my duff and get outside for a while. Record breaking heat today over 100.
I had to jump really high for some of the saguaro pics.
This freaky mutant Echinocereus flower, the only one up there:
Bunch of views, including Dudleya saxicola, cool blue rosettes:
The very unassuming flowers of Agave toumeyana
Base of same plant:
Another couple of jumpers:
A few pics of Mammillaria viridiflora, first time I've seen it in habitat. At least, I assume that's what this is. I suppose it could be wilcoxii.
A couple of a mystery Opuntia with some interesting characters:
great to get back out into the wilds...
peterb
I had to jump really high for some of the saguaro pics.
This freaky mutant Echinocereus flower, the only one up there:
Bunch of views, including Dudleya saxicola, cool blue rosettes:
The very unassuming flowers of Agave toumeyana
Base of same plant:
Another couple of jumpers:
A few pics of Mammillaria viridiflora, first time I've seen it in habitat. At least, I assume that's what this is. I suppose it could be wilcoxii.
A couple of a mystery Opuntia with some interesting characters:
great to get back out into the wilds...
peterb
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I was thinking that too, but I believe eastwoodiae lacks the wiskers shown on these. I think they must just be F. cylindraceus.
Byron,
I was thinking that too, but I believe eastwoodiae lacks the wiskers shown on these. I think they must just be F. cylindraceus.
Byron,
From this page: http://www.cactiguide.com/etymology_species/Alice Eastwood (1859-1953) distinguished Californian botanist, collector (plants of Western United States), author of a lot articles, editor of "Zoe", Curator and Head of the Department of Botany, her main botanical interest were American Liliaceae. (For example: Ferocactus acanthodes v. eastwoodiae).
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So you call this Mamms viridifloras or wrightii.. So I suspected, as Benson shows them somewhat in the area.
Fits his description too as he specifically mentions 2-3 hooked centrals as a differentiation.
The bloomed apachensis I found at higher elevation, near that observation point with large parking and a restroom where the road crests. And some more on my way down to Roosevelt dam.
I always wondered what plants are found all the way up at the mountain tops there. Must be a different environment, and a different set of cacti
Fits his description too as he specifically mentions 2-3 hooked centrals as a differentiation.
The bloomed apachensis I found at higher elevation, near that observation point with large parking and a restroom where the road crests. And some more on my way down to Roosevelt dam.
I always wondered what plants are found all the way up at the mountain tops there. Must be a different environment, and a different set of cacti
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Great as always to be out and about with you!! Even if it is vicariously!
From the High Desert Steppe
of the Great Basin and foot hills
of the Sierra Nevada Range
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sierrarainshadow/
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of the Great Basin and foot hills
of the Sierra Nevada Range
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sierrarainshadow/
sierrarainshadow
Vlad, I have trouble finding the larger, fuzzy, hook-spined Mammillaria around AZ, maybe it's just bad luck, maybe I haven't been looking in the right habitats. But this big, flabby super-whiskery plant with long red radials sure looks like viridiflora to me, not a form of wrightii. I've never really seen wilcoxii in with wrightii anyway, though. wrightii up around Santa Fe is a pretty strange plant indeed, more like a dolicothele, except for the huge purple flower. I've never seen any wrightii outside of Santa Fe to compare. Apparently it intergrades with wilcoxii farther south and west.
I stopped off at the rest stop you mention, Fish Creek Hill. Amazing vistas up there. The Echinocereus were maybe a week off flowering.
peterb
I stopped off at the rest stop you mention, Fish Creek Hill. Amazing vistas up there. The Echinocereus were maybe a week off flowering.
peterb
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