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- Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:09 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: What is the truth about Opuntia quitensis
- Replies: 2
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- Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:08 am
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: Opuntia ID growing in parking. Never seen one like this.
- Replies: 14
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- Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:12 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: What is the truth about Opuntia quitensis
- Replies: 2
- Views: 654
What is the truth about Opuntia quitensis
I normaly don't mess with the little cactus pots at walmart but they had little Opuntia quitensis so I got 3 of them. I am in Central Florida and it will easily get into the 20's here. Most of what I see about them says they can't freeze at all. Is anyone growing them in areas that freeze and what i...
- Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:51 am
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: Opuntia ID growing in parking. Never seen one like this.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2055
This plant was planted here. It is not naturalized.I don't even know if it is native. We do have lots of wild stricta here and I grow the spineless variety and the dilenii spiney variety. This plant has several characteristics that make it different than our local wild populations of stricta. But on...
- Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:32 am
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: whats my cacti
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1251
- Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:22 am
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: whats my cacti
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1251
I have never let mine get up to its full potential so I have never seen the flowers or fruits. I normaly pick off smaller ones and repot them and pitch the big part. The parts I pitch will freeze in the winter and die. The ones I keep I take inside. It would be too much to move in the larger ones. T...
- Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:11 am
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: ID of opuntia
- Replies: 12
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- Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:06 am
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: Opuntia ID growing in parking. Never seen one like this.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2055
Opuntia ID growing in parking. Never seen one like this.
There are some distinctive features I have noted Pads are diamond shape http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt264/martenfisher/DSC_2462.jpg The glochids are never round more oval http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt264/martenfisher/DSC_2476.jpg Here is a Flower http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt2...
- Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:47 am
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: what's this with the purple flowers?
- Replies: 6
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- Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:45 am
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: whats my cacti
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1251