Contest 54: Color Pink

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Jens
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Contest 54: Color Pink

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May 2011- Color Pink
Think Pink in all the shades you may find in cacti and succulents.


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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, etc.)
NOTE: For members outside of the USA non-plant prizes can only be awarded.

Deadline:
for submissions will be Wednesday, May 11th at 12 o´clock midnight Central Standart Time

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Good Luck to all!!

John C and Jens

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Flowering Mammillaria hahniana

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incurable cactoholic
growing rebutia's with a mix of others.
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It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.
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rebutia minuscula senilis

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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)
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Escobaria vivipara v. bisbeeana Image
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Echinocereus scheeri ssp. gentryi
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Forget the dog...Beware of the plants!!!

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No doubt the most beautiful of cactus flower colors. Here is Trichocereus "poco" at 11,500 ft in the Andes. If you think it looks like a long ways down to the highway, you'd be right. A big climb for an old guy, but absolutely worth it.

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Wow, talk about a tough choice. Well I really liked this C. fulgida flower - not as showy as many others, but I think the diminished nature of it makes it interesting:

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ImageM. grahamii in bloom. Last August I believe.
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
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an Echinopsis hybrid...
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I get involved?
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Echinocereus fitchii ssp.albertii
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Under-stated Conophytum ...
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Echinocereus rigidissimus rubispinus, ex type locale.

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Something a little different -- Aptenia cordifolia variegata

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