Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
Visited Organ Pipe Cactus (Stenocereus thurberi) park, amazing desert lanscape, magestic saguaros and organ pipe cacti, echinocereus engelmanii in bloom, and many opuntias and cylindropunias.
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Re: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
I can't believe my stenocereus pruinosus, which starts out looking like an astrophytum, can end up looking like this...amazing@
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Re: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
Thanks for sharing!
Re: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
OPNM is awesome. Did you visit Quitobaquito Spring? I think the barrel cactus is Ferocactus emoryi.
Re: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
Thank you, Tumamoc! Yes, I did visit Qiotobaquito Spring, it was amazing to see a clear water pond in the middle of the desert! Had a great time in the park, definitely will return again some day
Re: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
Amazing stuff, and the landscape is great too. Thank you .
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Re: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
What a great experience and photos. And the right time to visit with Echinocereus blooming. Don't you enjoy the Armatocereus-like indentations on the stems of the Stenocereus? As I understand it they're constrictions caused by freezing temperatures, but its a wonderful aesthetic that I assume must be somewhat unique to the more northerly populations, especially this one. I hear those that grow in brush much further south actually have a single trunk and don't begin to branch out until they hit the tops of the surrounding vegetation! Enjoyed the saguaro-shiva as well. Thank you for sharing.
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Re: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
Well, Arizona is a special place when it comes to cacti in the United States of America. Those huge saguaro cacti never fail to impress!
I live in the Chihuahuan Desert and we do have a nice cactus flora. However, our heaviest and tallest native cactus is the Ferocactus wislizenii, which can reach up to 6 feet in height, if I am not mistaken; nothing compared to the towering Carnegiea gigantea of the Sonoran Desert.
Harald
I live in the Chihuahuan Desert and we do have a nice cactus flora. However, our heaviest and tallest native cactus is the Ferocactus wislizenii, which can reach up to 6 feet in height, if I am not mistaken; nothing compared to the towering Carnegiea gigantea of the Sonoran Desert.
Harald
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Re: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
I'm going here soon!