West Texas

[keith]

West Texas cactus from Big bend to Guadalupe Mountains to Franklin Mountain state park. Ariocarpus were photographed in big bend and the Epithelantha in the Guadalupe Mountains. Epithelantha were hard to find but the Ariocarpus were everywhere and often in the shade of Bushes or rocks. Echinomastus right out in the open same with Echinocactus horizinthalonius . Mammillaria meiacantha also widespread .

[MikeInOz]

Great pics. Thanks for posting. More if you have them....

[Nino_G]

Thank you Keith, excellent photographs. A. fissuratus in first picture is very pretty - hard to replicate such flat shape in cultivation

[keith]

Thanks there will be a video my kids will make with way more pictures and plants youtube " cactusduty"

[greenknight]

Thank you Keith, excellent photographs. A. fissuratus in first picture is very pretty - hard to replicate such flat shape in cultivation

That cactus is coping with very dry, hot conditions, and they grow very slowly in habitat - it may have taken it 50 years to reach that size. Few would have the patience to grow them that "hard".

[madkactus]

Very nice pictures. Thanks for sharing. Now that the first picture has been pointed out and it's been suggested the A. fissuratus could be considerably old notice how the placing of the rocks are around the cactus. It's almost like the rocks were strategically placed around the cactus. I guess over the years the rocks were slowly pushed in that position or small animals foraging around.

[keith]

Pictures taken with a big camera not my phone. Very dry and bright area with all the Limestone reflecting the sunlight. The Echinomastus could be warnockii not mariposensis ?

[MrXeric]

Awesome pictures keith. I'd love to hike out there one day. I particularly enjoyed looking at that E. dasyacanthus growing out of that crack in the limestone boulder.

[Sonoran Jackalope]

Nice job Keith! Great pics!

[7george]

Nice photos and so many founds for a trip! Looks no flowers yet but many will come soon.

[Hanazono]

I bought seeds of A. fissuratus Big Bend and sowed in 2003. 5 of them have servived. They were germinated in my greenhouse and sit in there for 20 years.

I have no chance to see habitad cacti and so your photos are excellent information for me.

Thanks keith!

[xiaohuage123]

I bought seeds of A. fissuratus Big Bend and sowed in 2003. 5 of them have servived. They were germinated in my greenhouse and sit in there for 20 years.

I have no chance to see habitad cacti and so your photos are excellent information for me.

Thanks keith!

show you A. fissuratus from seeds of Big Bend.Let us see the differents of the wild and in greenhouse

[Hanazono]

G'morning xiaohuage123,

show you A. fissuratus from seeds of Big Bend.Let us see the differents of the wild and in greenhouse

1st photo is 5 cacti, around 10 cm in diameter and 2nd photo is one of them.

Frank