Baja habitat pics, winter 2012/2013 I, including Morangaya
Baja habitat pics, winter 2012/2013 I, including Morangaya
Just returned from a couple weeks in Baja, driving for the 5th time in the past couple of years all the way down to Los Cabos and back. I would have liked to have another week or two or month! But there were some great cactus sights. I put several albums up on Facebook and will include the public links for those who want to see more photos, including more tourist type shots. Here, I'll just post some of the highlight pics.
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- huge old mound of Echinocereus maritimus about 60 miles south of San Diego.
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- Ferocactus viridescens littoralis
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- Agave subcerulata in the Vizcaino
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- Echinocereus brandegeei trying to imitate Grusonia invicta
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- a couple of large Mammillaria peninsulae growing at the base of a cardon
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- the moon setting behind Pachycereus pringlei at the beach near Todos Santos
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- Pachycereus pectin-aboriginum doing an imitation of a saguaro
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- southern Elephant Tree growing through L. thurberi.
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- The common Ferocactus of th Cape Region, grows in very tropical habitats
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- On the hunt yet again for Morangaya pensilis high in the Sierra la Laguna, a very cold and rainy day.
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- finally spotted a colony on some exposed rock across the road. I have been searching for this plant for a few years. Really stoked to have finally found it.
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- The plants were not growing far from the road as the crow flies, but the hike down a steep ravine in the rain and back up again, through the thickest brush I have ever been in, took 90 minutes.
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- not the prettiest cactus in the club. But man was I thrilled.
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- I look forward to returning when they are flowering someday. I wonder how close they are to Echinocereus, proper. This is a controversial question!
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- the very tropical, wet winter habitat. There are of course very prolonged dry seasons as well.
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- The view back to the car.
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Peterthecactusguy
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Re: Baja habitat pics, winter 2012/2013 I, including Moranga
PeterB, nice find 
The weather there sorta reminds me a little bit of the weather up here in Black Canyon City, although IT IS not by any stretch of the imagination "tropical" however, the mountains here tend to draw in more moisture than other areas of the much drier parts of the desert south of me, sorta like the area around Lake Pleasant (at least to the east anyways around Western New River). Cool shots, and it looks like a very neat habitat area. Someday I might visit Mexico. If I am going I will let you know haha
The weather there sorta reminds me a little bit of the weather up here in Black Canyon City, although IT IS not by any stretch of the imagination "tropical" however, the mountains here tend to draw in more moisture than other areas of the much drier parts of the desert south of me, sorta like the area around Lake Pleasant (at least to the east anyways around Western New River). Cool shots, and it looks like a very neat habitat area. Someday I might visit Mexico. If I am going I will let you know haha Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
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gemhunter178
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Re: Baja habitat pics, winter 2012/2013 I, including Moranga
Nice habitat pics! That's one big mound in the first picture! 
A cactus and succulent collector who especially likes Ariocarpus. …Though I have a bit of everything! Want some pictures? See my flickr! I also do art and such.
Re: Baja habitat pics, winter 2012/2013 I, including Moranga
Awesome habitat shots of the Morangaya! Definitely worth the pokes and scratches to see that up close. The only thing I know about them is they root like mad and can't tolerate a good freeze.
Re: Baja habitat pics, winter 2012/2013 I, including Moranga
It was a sometimes maddening search for these plants. I was very happy to find some. I now want to get to the new habitat location discovered not too far south of La Paz. Apparently the plants have a slightly different form there.
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