hmm if something is "identical" to something else wouldn't it just be that? I mean after all San Pedro and T. peruviana are in the same family.. so.

also another factor of late that really isn't a huge deal but has me wondering, the Supermoon, is full tonite and it's kinda bright outside lol

Cereus peruvianus I think

yeah. without the flowers I might have gotten it wrong.

sabotenmen wrote:Makes you wonder what an Opuntia "englishmen" would look like.

hahahahahahaha yeah I wonder.

well, I can debate taste when living things are killed so they the colors of them can be changed.

I set my irrigation system for my trees to go off at 4:30am for one and 5:30am for the other. For my cacti I water them in day light mostly usually around either 10:30am or maybe a little later but I avoid the noon-2 PM sun as it's VERY strong here.

hahahaha They can try and take my cacti from me in Arizona, but I might throw a chunk of cholla at them, loosen a few pads of Opuntia, chop the arm off a dead saguaro onto them, or get them stuck in the spines of a hooked Mammilaria .. ;) hahahahaa after that they can pry my cacti from my cold dead ...

I know that our common local Yucca, (Yucca elata also called soaptree yucca as a common name) is perfectly happy growing on it's side. In fact in many landscapes that have them here they try and make sure they stay up, but along the freeway and stuff, I have seen them laying on their sides and being...

Dave, hahaha I have saguaros that will out live me, I set seeds for the first time for cacti this year, BTW I am hooked

actually Dave, if you can get a word spelled right you can add it to a dictionary. So for instance, I got tired of having my spell checker trip when every I typed in common names like Opuntia and engelmannii so what you do is right click on the name and click add to dictionary.. (as long as it is sp...

hahaha Rich, I hope so too, but I dont want it to be too cold or wet. Lows in the winter are trending lower.. But who knows might just be a bad last 3 years or so.. And btw the good news? the fire burned 36 acres yesterday.

def Cleistocactus .. and most likely strausii . The flowers are a dead give away. Cliesto means closed.. and of course refers to the sorta oddly shaped flowers

or dye packets? lol

Just an FYI, if you are interested in reading more about Lophophora you should read Anderson's book on Peyote, I have read parts of it, and it's interesting.