Balboa Park question 30

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Balboa Park question 30

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Fuzzy bird neck with small red beak

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Cleistocactus hyalacanthus
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Thank you Tony!

Is this the same species?

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Nope, my guess... Oreocereus doelzianus.
Those flowers will open up fully unlike the cleistocactus, you were probably a day or two late.
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