Contest 57 : Shapes

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Contest 57 : Shapes

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August 2011- Shapes
This is lookking at interesting outlines and forms rather than color or texture

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To the winner goes, A $10 gift certificate towards any CoronaCactus.com purchase. (Plants, tools, Pots, labels, etc.)
NOTE: For members outside of the USA non-plant prizes can only be awarded.

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for submissions will be Thursday, August 11th at 12 o´clock midnight Central Standart Time

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I like the "shape" of these E. anguliger stems:

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This Euphorbia mauritanica crest has an interesting form. :laughing6:
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Shapes in my front yard - silhouette formed by the street lamp on my garage wall.

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sempervivum arachnoidium

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Opuntia erinacea ursina, Meadview AZ:

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The head of the "Spiny Dragonmonster From Outer Space". (a budded Cylindropuntia sp)

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look but don't smell :lol:

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Apex of Uebelmannia crebispina:Image
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A pereskia at the Durban Botanic Gardens:
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Gymnocactus gielsdorfianus
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A. Ornatum Mirbelli

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Similar thought but using an unknown blue columnar about 10 inches tall.

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Polaskia chichipe
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