hey what kind of rock is with the FRED it almost looks like azurite.
Looks more like a malachite to me, definitely a copper mineral though.
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hey what kind of rock is with the FRED it almost looks like azurite.
Looks more like a malachite to me, definitely a copper mineral though.
It's malachite. Greener in person. I did some work for a woman a few months ago who had a huge collection of minerals and crystals. She gave me a few and let me pick through her discard pile in the yard. Got lots of nice stuff and broke the tip of one of my fingers! All the azurite I got was very blue.
It's certainly some sort of copper oxide.
Disclaimer: I'm in sunny Arizona, so any advice I give may not apply in your circumstances.
The plants all look great! And nicely displayed, too. I especially like the beautiful malachite juxtaposed with "Fred".
The Echinocereus knippelianus ssp. reyesii is interesting--I've never seen knips bloom on top like that. If that was my plant, it would have a bunch of bird holes in it.
With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.
(Wisdom of the Cree Indians)