Contest 30: Winter Dormant Plants

[CoronaCactus]

Well, for most of us, this is the winter dormancy time of year for our plants, so this contest is going for the dormant theme. The plants do not need to be snow covered to be included as a dormant plant

This months prize will be a live plant! You get to choose between a cactus or a succulent.

Cactus: Melocactus violaceus


Succulent: Gibbaeum album


Contest 30: Winter/Dormant Plants
Can be either cacti or succulents, in habitat or cultivation, depicting a winter and/or dormant state. Snow covered, leaf covered, a plant whose lost its leaves, that precious gem you have wrapped in a blanket, all those *touchy* plants tucked away in a heated greenhouse, shelves full of plants in a dark cool basement, or the brave plants out in habitat battling the elements...lets see those great pics!

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Click for Complete Contest Rules

Good Luck to all!!
Happy Holidays to all!!

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[CoronaCactus]

Echinopsis huascha v. macrantha
Tucked away in it's warm bed of leaves.
and one stuck to it's spines to keep its nose warm

[Buck Hemenway]

This picture reflects is one of my favorite memories. On a field trip with minerologists in the mountains near Barstow, CA, my mother-in-law says "those look like cacti in the snow!". Wow, a whole field full of echocacti, echinocereus, opuntias and yuccas, amazing

[ihc6480]

Did someone say cacti and succulents

[Andy_CT]

An icy and spicy Opuntia Fragilis

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[Moonbeam]

[birdguy34]

[vlani]

This cholla in death valley when shrinks in the winter looks almost like it deserve to go into collection In the spring they plum up, the charm goes away

[hablu]

A sleeping Aloe gariepensis.
Harry

[Tony]

Here's a leafy E. leucantha.

[CoronaCactus]

Posting on behalf of Byron (Saguaro123)

Haggeocereus X Espostoa