Sorry it took so long to get these pics up. I took them all yesterday but photobucket wasn't cooperating with me, apparently they had it down for some reason or another.
New growth on my own E. engelmannii, or E. bryce-thompsonii.
2 offsets. I think the tip might not be too healthy. It hasn't grown at all this year and it put out 2 offsets. This was one of the rescued cacti from the flood so maybe it got damaged.
This one with buds on it is near the AFNM.
In the Agua Fria National Monument.
in the AFNM.
3 buds all in bloom on the same day!
This plant would be almost invisible if it wasn't in bloom. The spines really blend in with the grass!
pretty nice clump of them. This one is probably an E. bryce-thompsonii.
A pinker flower, possibly a hybrid, or an E. fasciculatus.
It's impossible to get the purple to come out right in these flowers. I wish I could get the vivid purple to show better but it's impossible.
One near the now fallen down crested saguaro. I will post some pics of that somewhere else.
More of the lovely purpler flowers.
a whole cluster of them in this clump!. Can't wait til I get one of these that will actually flower for me!
One that wasn't flowering that has some nice new growth on it and look at all the cool spines!
One with a few buds on it.
One of the ones with a much darker purple flower. Any idea what this one is? PeterB? Anyone else?
One with two flowers on it. These were pretty nice looking flowers.
One in flower with a M. grahamii that has some buds on it.
details of the flowers. The little green things in the middle of the flowers(sorry I know the name of them but forget it at the moment!) are neat to look at. The one on the bottom was opened the day before, the one on top was opened for the first time that day.
Not an Echinocereus but it's still neat. M. grahamii with buds on it that is next to the Echinocereus.
Pigs ate this one I think. It appears to have some fungus on it or something too, but it still budded out.
same clump, this one is putting out some offsets instead of flowers. Wonder why they do that instead of putting out flower buds? Might be a clue as to what my own plant is doing. haha
another brilliant purple colored flower.
Whole clump growing under a mesquite tree, I think.
a clump with no buds under a palo verde tree.
double header under a tree.
A weird hybrid Cholla? Nope. A hidden Echinocereus
a nice clump. Details of the spines and tops of the plants along with the flower.
The flowers on this one weren't in as good of shape as the rest. Something either nibbled on it, or they might have been damaged by the recent cold weather we had, or maybe they were spent!
Another great purplish colored flower. I like the detail of the bud in the lower corner on the right
The next group of plants are located in a vacant lot along Coldwater Canyon Rd(which is now Coldwater Road, I live down the street from these.. a few blocks I guess you could say)
A pink flowered one. Possibly an E. fasciculatus.
Another pink flowered Echinocereus.
A clump with a few dead stems near it. I don't take pictures of dead plants, but there were some in both the area around the vacant lot an in the AFNM. Many of the dead ones likely rotted during the winter either this year or last. We also had brutally cold winter temps this past winter which might have led to some of their demises too, although I think they are pretty cold tolerant.