Contest 52: Discussion and Related Pictures

by **Jens** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:35 pm

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

by **peterb** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:10 pm

Some of my also rans for texture:

Ariocarpus fissuratus:

Ariocarpus trigonus:

Opuntia basilaris ramosa

Echinomastus johnsonii seedling new growth

peterb

by **Jens** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:22 pm

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!

by **iann** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:41 pm

I spotted these today.

Echeveria setosa

Avonia quinaria ssp alstonii

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

by **SnowFella** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:22 am

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. :oops:

Been sprayed several times since and that reddish growth has stopped expanding.

Photo from the day I brought it home.

by **Jens** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:42 pm

@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 :oops:

:wink: )

@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....

by **SnowFella** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:15 am

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.

by **Jens** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 7:11 pm

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

by **Jens** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 7:14 pm

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 :lol:

by **fanaticactus** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:15 pm

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.

by **CoronaCactus** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:30 am

Uebelmannia pectinifera

by **tumamoc** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:50 pm

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.

by **Jens** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:12 pm

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

by **The Duck** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:23 pm

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

by **fanaticactus** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:43 pm

click 'post reply'

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