Contest 42: Discussion and Related Photos

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 4:48 am

Please discuss and post related photos to Contest 42: South American Cacti here. Thank you.

Post lots of pics! I know you have some really, really great plants...i wanna see them all!

Post by **daiv** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 5:59 pm

Woo hoo! This should be a good one!

iann · Post by **iann** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:59 pm

There's a South America too? Are there cacti there?

Post by **daiv** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 9:48 pm

iann wrote:There's a South America too? Are there cacti there?

Only Copiapoas.

Peterthecactusguy · Post by **Peterthecactusguy** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:38 pm

LoL@Ian...
I wonder what cacti grow in the US South..

haha

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:19 pm

I posted N. leninghausii's remarkable flowers but I'm also a fan of this, Notocactus rudibuenekeri:

I love South American cacti but grow precious few of them. Someday!

peterb

Harriet · Post by **Harriet** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:05 pm

Peterthecactusguy wrote:LoL@Ian...
I wonder what cacti grow in the US South..

haha

Google it. Several Opuntias are native to Florida and some very rare Harrisia fragrans to name a few.

iann · Post by **iann** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:37 pm

Copiapoas, you say? I love this one but it only ever manages to look scruffy in photos. C. krainziana:

This one is very ordinary, yet it always looks imposing in photos. C. coquimbana:

This one is like a very tall Copiapoa. Eulychnia saint-peana, about the best of a rather scruffy genus:

iann · Post by **iann** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 8:39 pm

They don't come from much further south than this:

Peterthecactusguy · Post by **Peterthecactusguy** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:57 pm

Harriet, actually I think there are more then a few Opuntias that grow in the South, but I could be wrong.
After looking it up on Google it seems that there are two. O. humifusa and O. stricta.

I thought there were more then that. Oh well. I learn something new everyday!

Harriet · Post by **Harriet** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 12:58 am

Sorry, but we have more than two. These may be synonomous with the others, but there is also O. millspaughii, O. spinossima (AKA Consolea spinosissima or Florida semaphore cactus) O. splendens (AKA polycantha) O. pusilla (AKA drummondii). Interesting to note that in Anderson's book he basically says he includes east coast Opuntia but that little is known about them.

Problem is that they are not easy to locate for sale, and I for one, am not prone to harvesting them from the wild as many are at best threatened...

Peterthecactusguy · Post by **Peterthecactusguy** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 1:03 am

ah well Google isnt the most reliable of all sites...
I suspected that there were more. I dont have any books on Cacti either. I need to get some!

As for taking plants from the wild, I am not very keen on that either. Most cacti are restricted in one way or another in Arizona. Somewhere I have a list of all the restricted plants and its long. (btw some of them are considered noxious weeds and arent cacti at all!)

hob · Post by **hob** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:54 pm

South American Cacti

oooo i hate you you pesky wabbit

now i gotta sift through about 3000 images to find a good one

..........watch this space

hob · Post by **hob** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:23 pm

hob wrote:
South American Cacti
oooo i hate you you pesky wabbit

now i gotta sift through about 3000 images to find a good one ..........watch this space

also ran

Sulcorebutia canigeuralii

lobivia rebutioides

parodia penicillata

noto

just a few i could have used $\:D/$

CactusJordi · Post by **CactusJordi** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:24 am

That's was the result of the plant pictured in the contest:

This one, taken today, of Austrocylindropuntia pachypus missed the chance to be entered in the contest instead:

Jordi