white columnars

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nona
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white columnars

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These were labelled 'cacti' but I guessed that already :wink:
Perhaps c.senilis or espostoa
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ElieEstephane
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1: im not familiar with it but probably an espostoa
2 and 3 are espostoa
You'd probably figure out the species if you look at botanical descriptions of espostoa species.
No C. Senilis here though i think the last one could be (with a very small chance) thrixanthocereus (espostoa) senilis.
It would help to add your location to your profile and tell us where you got them
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nona
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Thanks for that. So c.senilis still eludes me. Here's another I picked some time ago. No label then but I saw one recently from the same outlet that looked similar. It was labelled something_dybowski. Could this be one?
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Espostoopsis dybowskii -- that I was thinking about first. And the 2nd may be Cephalocereus senilis.
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7george wrote: Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:20 am Espostoopsis dybowskii -- that I was thinking about first. And the 2nd may be Cephalocereus senilis.
The "dybowskii" looks close to pictures on the internet so perhaps it's a match for that one.
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I think 1 and 3 are Espostoa lanata, 2 is E. melanostele and, yes, that last one is Espostoopsis dybowskii.
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