"Cactus Fruit" -Contest Number 4 (Submissions Only

[daiv]

Voting has begun for this contest!

Click here to vote:
http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1213


OK, per Dominique the theme of the next contest is Cactus Fruit!

Post all your pictures for "Cactus Fruit" -Contest Number 4 in this thread.

Contest will run from April 2 through April 17 (We will push back the ending one day due to Easter on the 16th.)

You have Until April 9, 2006 to enter a picture in the contest. (Note: This is also a one week entry period.)

Voting will be from April 10 to April 17

There have been no changes to the Contest Rules, but please review this post for the contest rules: http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=888

Remember: Pictures should be no larger than 600 pixels in either height or width!

I can't wait to see what you all come up with this go around!

[daiv]

Again, I'll kick of the contest with my entry. Here is one of my favorite cactus pictures of all time. This is a wild Ferocactus wislizeni from Saguaro National Park (East Unit). If you want to see the whole plant look here: http://www.cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus ... =wislizeni

And here is my entry:



Pineapple anyone?

[seriouscereus]

Hi!
I haven't posted any 'contest' pictures yet, I really didn't have anyt that was relevant to the theme at the time, but I do now with the fruit one.




I hope I put this in the right place.
Anyway, I STILL don't know the name of the cactus, although it has been with me for several years and bloomed and set fruits last year; it has bloomed many years now but has never set fruits...this was a surprise!
This is a photo of one of the fruits bursting. I managed to get several hundred seeds out of all the fruits.
I don't know if this will get any votes, I just wanted to share this.(again!) -Sayward

[mavaz]

shows an amazing close view of the litle club-like red fruits of one of my favorite cacti Epithelanta micromeris. I take this picture when I was buying cacti.I hope you like it.

[faslimy]

Opuntia (species unknown)



daiv wins

[Buck Hemenway]

Bleeding Opuntia robusta

[tinsel]

This is absolutely something new, the very first cactus fruits/seedpods of ever in my home!! These are ripening fruits of Schlumbergera truncata hybrid.

[Franj]

Here's my entry. Some fruits, cephalium and even a flower thrown in. Melocactus matanzanus.

[cactusveda]

Am from India.it is very difficult to find old cacti producing fruits that commonly in my place,exept for opuntias.so i have this picture of opuntia fruits a bit cylindrical and in phase of ripening.it tastes like a strawberry when ripe!

[GeneS]

This one is a tough decision. Sooo many neat cacti fruit. Pereskia are otherworldly as are most epiphyllium. Cleistocactus are like satin christmas tree balls. Then there is the fruit making champion of all cacti - Opuntia fulgida. Where to start!!

Since we already have plenty of Opuntia represented, I'll try to even up the choices a bit and join Daiv with a Fero.

F. reppenhagenii - for those that don't recoginize the distinctive fruit.



GeneS -dgimages

[hegar]

I do not have anything special this time around, because I have never really concentrated on the fruit of a cactus. I am a "flower man". However, I photographed one huge cactus fruit that is edible and called dragonfruit (Hylocereus undatus).

[Dominique]

No "pineapple" here but almost a crown of small fruits on mammillaria crucigera (fall 2005)

[Kryk]

Hi Daiv.
These're fruits of opuntia phaeacantha.I'm sorry I did not grow bigger ,but I promise to make everyting what can I do for it.
Poland Opole
Mick

[M.mestre]

some cactus can´t wait the presure

Astrophytum explosion



Miguel