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Apache Trail
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 3:20 am
by peterb
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 3:24 am
by Saguaro123
Nice shots Peter.
You must've had a lot of fun out there, especially in record breaking heat.
Is the Apache Trail an unpaved highway that takes you from Phoenix to Roosevelt Lake?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 3:34 am
by birdguy34
Amazing place and pics. Are some of the Fero's eastwoodiae? I can't remember exactly where those are found.
Chris
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 3:35 am
by Saguaro123
birdguy34 wrote:Amazing place and pics. Are some of the Fero's eastwoodiae? I can't remember exactly where those are found.
Chris
I am just wondering, why do they have the name "eastwood" in it?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 4:17 am
by daiv
Chris,
I was thinking that too, but I believe eastwoodiae lacks the wiskers shown on these. I think they must just be F. cylindraceus.
Byron,
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).
From this page:
http://www.cactiguide.com/etymology_species/
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 4:57 am
by peterb
There were some eastwoodii but I didn't photograph them. They are scattered throughout this area. These cylindraceus seem to have slightly eastwoodian characteristics, so to speak. But they're cylindraceus.
peterb
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 12:12 pm
by Arzberger
Impressive pictures! Thanks for sharing.
Is it legal there to harvest seeds in the wild?
Regards
Alex
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 12:30 pm
by kevin63129
You have an awesome jump shot.LOL Thanks for taking us along on your trip.
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 1:40 pm
by peterb
Alex, I don't think it is legal to collect seed, since it's a National Forest (Tonto).
peterb
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 2:50 pm
by CoronaCactus
Great pics man!
Awesome Saguaro flowers.
Amazing how good those Fero's look.
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 2:38 am
by peterb
I think it was a pretty rainy winter, so they soaked up a lot of water before the complete dryness set in.
peterb
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 5:50 am
by vlani
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
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 1:32 pm
by John P Weiser
Great as always to be out and about with you!! Even if it is vicariously!
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 1:48 pm
by peterb
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
Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 12:35 am
by John C
Nice pics!