June 2013 - Close Up Making small things big. Note: Remember, along with each contest is a seperate thread for discussion and posting all your "other" pics, Click here Prize: To the winner goes, A $10 gift certificate towards any CoronaCactus.com purchase. (Plants, tools, Pots, labels, et...

Congradulations Maja! And thanks to everyone for all the other great photos.

Yes good job Ian!
Did you grow the Pyrrhocactus villicumensis in the front to the left from seed?

One more vote, pllllleeease.

Hi RobP , cute plant and flower! but the deadline for the contest was due on the 20th of May.

Time to vote on this one, you guys.

It looks very much like E. paucicostata (NCL) = Eriosyce taltalensis ssp. paucicostata (Kattermann). Allthough the red stamen color is a diagnosic feature of Eriosce taltalensis ssp. taltalensis.... I got a similar plant that resists my attempts to categorize it too. Eriosyce taltalensis (Nc. taltal...

Eriosyce recondita ssp.iquiquensis is quite a wide subspecies now. it includes plants over a wide distance in the northermost (=driest) part of Chile. Many of the sites were they were described don´t hold any living cacti any more. It makes it even more thrilling to sow some more of these... Here ar...

Thanks Ralf!
Here is another pink flower on a cactus , thanks again Ralf.

One more circle And a shade of purple

Looking cool in its symetry.! Great picture Subverted.

More symetry : CIRCLE

Maybe Maja grows all kinds of odd smileys in her back yard?... :mrgreen: BTW: great selection of entries so far. It payed off to make the emes of the contest a little wider once in a while (but maybe not all of the times because this might get boring too then?) another possibility for a pink flower ...

Thanks Dave
So this is more on the purple side of the pink-purple spectrum.

edit : the name should be L. wrightiana var. winteriana /L. winteriana

Great flower pictures everybody. @Gene: Very unusual and beautiful Akersia (is it now called Borzicactus?) For me as a non native speaker it is hard to imagine the exact meaning of both pink and purple. Maybe some could show what those two colors are meant to look like. Another example of (pink?) Gy...

Oh wow, what a variety of pink flowered plants. I especiallly liked the delicate flowers on the Sclerocactactus (growing in such a harsh environment) and the Anacampseros flower. In fact I usually vote for a succulent flower in the contests in spite of the fact /or because I don´t grow any (well alm...