Chicago Botanic Garden
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Christopher Howard
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Chicago Botanic Garden
This is a pretty nice place. Very large. Lots of variety. I really like their bonsai collection. Cool tropical and subtropical rooms too. But the cacti are what I really love there. Here are some pictures from when I just went.
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- Aloe Bloom
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- Acacia Blooms
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- Agave parryi huachucensis
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- Aloe cryptopoda bloom
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- Aloe cryptopoda bloom
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- Crassula ovata bloom
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- Gasteria bloom
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- Gasteria
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- Agave victoriae-reginae
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- Agave fo-76
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- Agave americana
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- Euphorbia milii
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- TIMBER! Cephalocereus polylophus
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- Parodia warasii
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- Trichocereus tephracanthus (?)
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- Uebelmannia pectinifera
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- Uebelmannia pectinifera
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- Kalanchoe blooms - looks like northern sea oats
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- A. victoriae-reginae variegata
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- Pilosocereus leucocephalus
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- Pilosocereus leucocephalus
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- Stetsonia?
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- Stenocereus thurberi (ID compliments of peterb)
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- Stenocereus thurberi (ID compliments of peterb)
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- Melocacti
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Last edited by Christopher Howard on Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:07 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Christopher Howard
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Re: Chicago Botanic Garden
some more pictures. DEAL WITH IT. 
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- Melocacti Mammillaria and Astrophytum
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- Astrophytum capricorne var minor
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- Mammillaria spinossima var rubrispina
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- Astrophytum capricorne var minor
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- Melocactus
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- ID?
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- Agave parryi var. truncata
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- Opuntia robusta?
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- Aloe blooms
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- Aloe dichotoma?
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- Ferocactus covillei
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- Euphorbia greenwayi
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- Euphorbia abyssinica
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- Euphorbia abyssinica
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- Euphorbia abyssinica
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- Agave americana in pot
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- Cereus palmeri spiralis?
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- Carnegia gigantea - fairly small
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- Espostoa lanata
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- Cleistocactus jujuyensis
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- Mammillaria plumosa
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- Euphorbia lactea Cristata
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- Escobaria sneedi ssp leei
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- echinocereus triglochidiatus
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- Echinocactus texensis
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Christopher Howard
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Re: Chicago Botanic Garden
The last of the pictures for now.
I hope you enjoy. Some of the plants could be mislabeled. If you feel there is something wrong, please let me know, and I'll edit them.
I hope you enjoy. Some of the plants could be mislabeled. If you feel there is something wrong, please let me know, and I'll edit them.
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- Tephrocactus ovatus
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- Tephrocactus ovatus
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- Escobaria vivipara
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- ID ?
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- Stenocereus stellatus ?
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- Trichocereus terscheckii ?
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- Espostoa lateral cephalium (species?)
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- Espostoa lateral cephalium (species?)
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- Aloe bud
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- Orbeanthus hardyi
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- Euphorbia pseudocactus
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- Adromischus poellnitzianus
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- Euphorbia decaryi var spirosticha
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- Parodia leninghausii
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- Agave filifera
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- Myrtillocactus geometricus - ready to fight
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- Agave bloom - beautiful, but sad to lose a life
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- Aloe stem
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Re: Chicago Botanic Garden
Hi thanks for sharing. Lots of nice plants there. What a great retreat in winter months that must be!
Some of those Melocactus are looking dead or dying. Wonder if it got a little cold for them?
Some of those Melocactus are looking dead or dying. Wonder if it got a little cold for them?
All Cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are Cacti
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That is a great garden. I did an internship there one summer. The funniest thing for me about their succulent collection is that one of the Agave americana bloomed that summer. It made the news and THOUSANDS of people came to see it. It got tall enough that they had to remove some glass panels from the greenhouse to accommodate the inflorescence. Makes you realize that what is a common yard plant in one place (I'm from California) can be an amazing rarity somewhere else.
I'm now selling plants on Ebay. Check it out! Kyle's Plants
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Christopher Howard
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Re: Chicago Botanic Garden
Daiv, I was here a few months ago and the one melo that is completely dead now looked how the other with the cephalium looks now. It was a fast demise. The dead body has some spots on it. Maybe you know if it has something to do with it? Or is this just going along with the death? I don't know if they change the temperature at night or if they maintain a set temperature in there. It is nowhere near as cold as it is outside, but it also isn't heated the same as it was in summer. With my thick winter coat on, I wasn't hot at all in this room.
It looks like the Melo with the cephalium that is still alive may have in the slightest turned a bit more yellow yellow.
Saxicola, I swear, I saw the exact same scenario happen at a different botanic garden out east with the panels and the news story and everything. Funny. I get what you mean.
It is a wonderful plant though. It just seems like such a powerful notion that once the plant sends up its inflorescence its life will end. It'd be so hard for me to know my plant was dying, not because it was sick or because I killed it, but just because it was its time. Cool, no?
It looks like the Melo with the cephalium that is still alive may have in the slightest turned a bit more yellow yellow.
- October 2nd 2012
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- Melo before death.
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It is a wonderful plant though. It just seems like such a powerful notion that once the plant sends up its inflorescence its life will end. It'd be so hard for me to know my plant was dying, not because it was sick or because I killed it, but just because it was its time. Cool, no?
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Christopher Howard
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Re: Chicago Botanic Garden
Some other pictures of plants I didn't take photos of this trip, but are still in this greenhouse.
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- Cephalocereus polylophus
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- Echinocactus grusonii
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- Euphorbia tirucalli (ID compliments of Acid John)
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- Lithops and others
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- Alluaudia procera
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Last edited by Christopher Howard on Mon Jan 28, 2013 12:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Chicago Botanic Garden
I think that last Euphorbia bush may be Euphorbia tirucalli.
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Christopher Howard
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Re: Chicago Botanic Garden
Oh hey, I think you might be right John. Thanks!
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It must cost a fortune to run a conservatory like that in Chicago! Nice, specimen size plants. The NO ID columnars in the very first post look like maybe Stenocereus thurberi to me.
peterb
peterb
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Christopher Howard
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Re: Chicago Botanic Garden
That seems right, Thanks peterb. 