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by robby
Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:28 am
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: ID help please...thank you
Replies: 8
Views: 922

Re: ID help please...thank you

The second one is M.parkinsonii, not karwinskiana.
by robby
Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:34 am
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: Two Mammillarias for ID.
Replies: 10
Views: 1041

Re: Two Mammillarias for ID.

First one could be Mammillaria magnifica (not bombycina) - second one I tend to Mammillaria pilispina.
by robby
Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:46 am
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: Mammillaria sp?
Replies: 9
Views: 1397

Re: Mammillaria sp?

Not easy without flowers - but the big tubercles, the hooked spines and big rests of flowers are distinctive features. I tend to M.booli or M.schumannii.
by robby
Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:44 am
Forum: Cacti Places
Topic: Baja habitat pics, winter 2012/2013, IV, photo albums
Replies: 10
Views: 2025

Re: Baja habitat pics, winter 2012/2013, IV, photo albums

Thank you Peter for showing us all those great impressions of the Baja. I'm very interested in Mammillarias of the Baja and I try to give names to your founds - not easy, especially without knowing the founding places. I know some habitats between Bahia Conception and the Cape myself. And I'm sure t...
by robby
Tue Nov 13, 2012 5:38 pm
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: Is this a mammillaria elongata...?
Replies: 5
Views: 1226

Re: Is this a mammillaria elongata...?

yes, you're right - it's M.elongata
by robby
Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:04 pm
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: Is this a Mammillaria
Replies: 4
Views: 656

Re: Is this a Mammillaria

please compare with Mammillaria oteroi - a very characterized plant - beautyful
by robby
Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:54 am
Forum: Big Picture Project
Topic: Biggest cacti???
Replies: 24
Views: 12964

My favorite is Pachycereus pringlei. Big enough?

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by robby
Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:52 pm
Forum: CactiGuide.com Comments
Topic: Echinopsis schieliana (syn Lobivia) -- red flowers?
Replies: 3
Views: 2301

Walter RAUSCH reports in his book Lobivia 85 red and yellow flowers in the same population WR207 (east of Lake Titicaca). In another book from 1975 RAUSCH reports '...and flower is red to yellow. Again one can observe that red with bluish sheen in higher reaches and red with yellow in lower reaches ...
by robby
Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:26 pm
Forum: Free For All
Topic: Can you find the hidden cat?
Replies: 20
Views: 3267

Hey amanzed,

if this would be my cats, I would take the opportunity and flush the toilet...

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by robby
Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:01 pm
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: Thelocactus
Replies: 2
Views: 591

Guess it could be T.tulensis. It match the original description I think... (bueckii is a red flowering form of tulensis)
by robby
Tue Sep 13, 2011 4:39 pm
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: Wii the real Mammillaria pottsii please stand up?
Replies: 3
Views: 710

Cris is right, the second one might be M.mystax. But the first one is a real pottsii.
by robby
Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:05 am
Forum: Succulent Identification
Topic: Cactus ID
Replies: 6
Views: 1150

No cactus, I think it's Euphorbia aeruginosa.
by robby
Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:15 am
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: Cactus ID
Replies: 1
Views: 606

Hi Maria,

a very nice Mammillaria. Please compare with Mammillaria collinsii.

Other plants from this group are M.karwinskiana/confusa and M.voburnensis.

Robby
by robby
Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:12 am
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: 2 unknowns ???????????
Replies: 3
Views: 760

I think the first one may be M.leptacantha a form of M.rekoi.
by robby
Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:07 am
Forum: General
Topic: The Mammillaria lasiacantha fans club
Replies: 18
Views: 2592

Great plants, please let me join the fan club :) M.lasiacantha (25 years old) http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/3682_Mammillaria_lasiacantha_1.jpg M.egregia (25 years old) http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/3682_Mammillaria_magallanii_fegregia_1.jpg M.stella-de-tacubaya (without centrals)...