Contest 59 : Prostrate or creeping Cacti / Succulents

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Contest 59 : Prostrate or creeping Cacti / Succulents

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October 2011- Prostrate or creeping cacti
Let´s see all the cacti with a more laid back attitude to growing 8) 8)
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Well I've got to post Stenocereus eruca - I know I won't get points for originality, but it is the creepingest of all!

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Echinopsis thelegona slowly working its way through the maze.
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Post by Lazz »

I took this at Fields Cactus Garden, Tennyson Australia in 2007. Mr Fields told me it only grows in the direction of the ocean. :roll:
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Hildewintera aureispina
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Flowering Stenocereus gummosus, near Vinorama, Baja California Sur this past July.
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Post by cactushobbyman »

I believe this creep is an Echinopsis Oxygona.

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Post by Melt In The Sun »

As always, I'll post a succulent; this time it's Orbea schweinfurthii. Very cool stems on this one.
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opuntia humifusa
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With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
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