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Here you may discuss anything you would like to add to the picture contest No. 52: Texture

Some of my also rans for texture:

Ariocarpus fissuratus:

Ariocarpus trigonus:

Opuntia basilaris ramosa

Echinomastus johnsonii seedling new growth


peterb

Looks as if Opuntias are really good close up candidates!

@Daiv: the symetry is very striking, the texture LOOKS soft but we all know it isn´t really

@Peter: awesome lunar landscape on that opuntia of yours!

I spotted these today.

Echeveria setosa


Avonia quinaria ssp alstonii


I didn't dare get started on Titanopsis and Aloinopsis warts!

Full size shots of the A. ornatum, doubt that reddish colour between the white flecks is healthy but it came to me with it already starting before I really knew better. Been sprayed several times since and that reddish growth has stopped expanding.


Photo from the day I brought it home.

@iann, Tony, peterb: This really is a good topic for the succulent people also. The diversity of surface structures is yet to be reached by cacti.
(nevertheless I personally like cacti more somehow )

@snowfella: I once had an astrophytum that started to look like that -and was dead a couple of month laterdue to some kind of rot. I just had dried out from the inside in the end. I do very much hope that yours will do better....

Shame to see a nice large Astro like that (capricorne of some sort I'm guessing) in that state! Hopefully my little ornatum just got a touch of mites and not rot, thinking it would be mites since I picked it up mid December with traces of it visible then and it's still not dead. The growth of it's even stopped and I can once again see healthy skin inbetween the ribs.

Hi snowfella, new growth always is a good sign. But don´t water it too early /too much just in case it survived an infestation with critters (might have left some wounds still).

Jens

I took this photo for the picture contest on the BCSS forum.
In fact I wiped the Gynmno with a cloth untill it had a shiny texture like this

Other candidates. I have to keep experimenting with my camera to get more consistently sharp focus. But these turned out to be some interesting angles.

A couple of my Mamm spinosissima Un Pico


And two of the Thelocactus hexaedrophorus, all collapsed from getting no water this winter.

Uebelmannia pectinifera

I'm not much of a succulent man, but I gotta say my favorites so far are Ian's Frithia and Tony's Haworthia. Awesome.

Yes this is great for succulent growers! Paracelsus´ aloe is awesome too I think.
But some cacti do have kind of a nice texture too if looked at quite close.
A good makro device for the camera will lead to good pictures in this one.

from better days of last year



Jens

I know to click on Contest 52:texture. Then do I click new topic or post reply?

click 'post reply'