Pups on pups

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iann
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Pups on pups

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Eriosyce esmeraldana is pretty slow but once it starts making pups, there's no stopping it. They come from the roots so once you spot them they're already pretty big.
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Looks like whats under there is 3 times as big as whats above. If not bigger, lol.
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The iceberg cactus!
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It is a flat thing on a big taproot.
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Those flowers are really very stunning.
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beautiful!
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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