If you have a cactus plant and need help identifying it, this is the place to post it.
dattdude
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by dattdude » Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:21 am
you all are so helpfull! Im back again.... this time for id's on these beautiful plants!
#2 is a gymno is my guess and the other two have me stumped.... #3 looks ragged but there was one growing in the ground that looked like the momma. it was large and vigourously growing. They were growing under a deck without any care for five years!
Zone 4a possible -35 F
dattdude
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by dattdude » Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:43 am
#1 is allmost a foot tall and 2-5 inches in diameter including spines
#2 is 5 inches in diameter and globular
#3 is well a clump of sunburned and dried stock exhibiting new green and multicolored growth simultaneously.
Zone 4a possible -35 F
frangipani
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by frangipani » Sun Dec 18, 2011 4:08 am
I'm not sure of the actual species, but 2 looks like a ferocactus to me.
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Tony
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by Tony » Sun Dec 18, 2011 4:19 am
I think 1 is stetsonia coryne, 2 Ferocactus macrodiscus, and 3 will turn out to be Opuntia microdasys minima.
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by Cris » Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:13 am
The columnar could be Roseocereus tephracanthus
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by CactusFanDan » Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:51 pm
My initial thoughts for plant 3 were Tephrocactus, but no, upon closer inspection, i'm going to have to agree with Tony for that one. In fact, i'm gonna agree with Tony on all of his ID's!
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martenfisher
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by martenfisher » Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:37 pm
I agree with Tony on 1 and 3. Stetsonia coryne and minima.
Thord Hakansson
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by Thord Hakansson » Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:52 pm
Number two is without any doubt Ferocactus macrodiscus and a very nice plant indeed
growing allkinds of smallgrowing cacti in the north of europe