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Some flower pics from today.

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Gymno beguinii from below
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Pediocactus winkleri RP132
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Beautiful flowers! 8)
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Great looking seedlings and flowers Peter!
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Love the Pedio flowers. They look kind of delicate for such a spiney "hard" looking plant.

The name on the Gymno, beguinii - do you pronounce that "beg-win-e-eye"?
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I think I say beg-win-ee-eye. Woody Minnich tells a funny story about taking a group on a tour of mexico and telling them "Tomorrow, we are going to the big weeny eye!" (at least that's what one of the tour group members heard).

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beautiful flowers peter
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Beautiful flowers
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a few of one of my favorite earlier bloomers, Echinofossulocactus phyllacanthus var. violaciflorus, slightly confused today by the sudden drop in temps.

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Seedling pics at 6 weeks. Ready to go outside into fresh air and shaded natural light, regular watering/drying cycles in another couple of weeks.
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great looking seedlings! you grow them in open air right?
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Who says Cacti grow slow... Your seedlings look huge already :-)
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great list,Peterb. I sown E. russanthus fa. cowperi in november 2008 and flowered after 2 years:
Blum et Al, call this species chloranthus ssp. rhyolithensis.
when I arrived from A & M.Ohr, the label was written
russanthus ssp. rhyolithensis fa. cowperi RC7/95 (but on this acronym I have not found anything)
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Angelo, interesting that cowperi is considered a synonym of rhyolithensis. I have about three tiny cowperi seedlings right now, so we will see what they do. Yes, I grow seedlings in a tray and pots without baggies. I like to interact with them a lot. :-)

I think they only look huge because the photos are super macros, using a tripod. But I love looking at the details. It turns out also that photography is a good way to inspect the pots for problems, etc.

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the name ryolithensis was given because the habitat of this species is covered with igneous red-brow rock.
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Wow, I'm really impressed. By all the seedlings and before that, by the Pediocactus (I don't have), the Mamm lasiacantha (this seems to be the subpopulation of M lasiacantha without the feathering on the spines), and that Stenocactus. Nice work!
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