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Tony, the habitat shot of engelmannii with C. bigelovii is simply awesome.

Really makes me want to get out into the desert again. Maybe this weekend.

peterb

I think Tumamoc's is a Coccineus.

Greg's might also be polyacanthus. Some hints in this direction include the subtle orange shading in the petals (could be photographic, too), the much more fierce spines, and the production of a single flower. I'd love to get a better grasp on the wily ways of this entire group, from trigloch to polyacanthus, but this is the sort of project that is a life's work and could easily drive a person mad.

peterb

Ya Peterb, that plant was fantastic! here is another gettin a big bear hug,


Echinocereus is a hard bunch to beat!

These do have great flowers. I actually had more than one potential entry...







Tony, I almost like the picture you posted with the biglovii here the best!

Yeah, the Echinocerei are an awesome group. Great theme this time around, Darryl. Such amazing flowers. I know you can't really group cacti based upon flower types alone, but in my humble observations, especially around Arizona, I have noticed that there are three main Echinocerus flower types--the triglochid group (which is what I have entered in this contest, and includes E. coccineus or E. polyacanthus), the engelmannii/fendleri group, and the pectinate group (rigidissimus, chisos, fitchii, etc.). Goodness knows how many other Echinocereus flower groups there are further south into Mexico (E. knippelianus and E. pensilis, for example).

I don't know if I have an Echinocereus or not. Need to check my database.

Willpower wrote:

Personally I think flowers is cheetin'

I agree! I have never had one flower or seen one flower so I don't have any pictures of them.

Greg, there's also the viridiflorus group, flower-wise. I agree that different "clans" or whatever within the genus have common, very distinct flower characteristics.

peterb

I have a Echinocereus Hybrid (the one i posted in the other topic), but i am not sure it is the same species as the one I saw at the nursery with the fruit. Do Echinocerei produce fruit that are yellow with white flesh with seeds?

An additional pic to my entry. Was in doubt weather to place this or the one in the contest. On this one the spines on the flowerbuds are so nice.
Harry

Well, I seem to have hit upon a common subject.
I like me some Echinocereus too!

Some really great pics, here and the submission thread. I'm affraid i'd end up posting 100 pics of the *runner ups*... so i will refrain this time

Byron,
All Echinocereus fruit are fleshy, but also heavily spined. Usually green.

Ok, it's either I picked up the wrong plant or the id's wrong. Here's the topic with the plant I'm talking about

http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10744

Byron,
I see what you did. I think everyone here has slipped with the keyboard the same way at some point or another.

You plant is an Echinopsis not an Echinocereus.

The same slip gets done with Echinocactus.

Anyway, since Echino = spiney - we're stuck with a lot of uses of that prefix.

Yup, looks much more Echinopsis than Echinocereus. Much more likely to come across an Echinopsis hybrid than Echinocereus.