Contest 70 : Discussion and related Pictures

[Jens]

Please discuss here all issues about the ongoing topic for the Photo Contest : Fruits

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[Tony]

One of my favorite parts of the hobby is making and collecting seed.

Cumarinia odorata makes lots of its own seed all by itself.

Cumarinia odorata

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Dried up fruits spilling seed on Turbinicarpus swobodae.

Turbinicarpus swobodae

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Melocactus azureus

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Gymnocalycium schickendantzii

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Mostly empty fruit bodies on Eriosyce taltalensis ssp. paucicostata and v. floccosa

Eriosyce taltalensis

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Pulp from cereus spegazinii

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Cereus peruvianus chilled and served

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[Jens]

That looks yummy! Tony and Cactushobbyman.
Here is a nice color on a fruit

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and an odd shape

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[Arjen]

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[peterb]

Daiv, I wonder if your pics are imbricata or the more upright form of whipplei? just a thought. This is a cool topic for a contest, will have to root around for some fruit pics....

peterb

[majcka]

I have some more:

Lobivia grandiflora

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Opuntia ficus indica

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Glandulicactus uncinatus var. wrightii

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Notocactus mammulosus

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[tumamoc]

My camera's messed up. Too bad. I coulda been a contender.

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Here's another. With a different point and shoot.

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[Subverted]

I was out hiking a couple weeks ago and saw a few of these interesting siamese twin Opuntia fruits. Very interesting. Is this common in other species? It seems somewhat common in my area.

[daiv]

Peterb - here are a couple more pics. I would be surprised if these were whipplei...





Do these pictures change your mind? They were about 2-3 feet high and stems about 3/4 inch or more in diameter....

[tumamoc]

Some oddities from around the garden...

Looks like maybe the stem tip couldn't handle the weight of this fruit and snapped off.

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Jimson weed "thornapple".

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[peterb]

Hey Daiv, I guess those do look more like imbricata, seeing more of them. Where were they?

peterb

[daiv]

Hey Daiv, I guess those do look more like imbricata, seeing more of them. Where were they?

peterb

Right around here:

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[iann]

Everyone a winner. Its amazing we aren't knee-deep in cacti with all that seed

Just to be different, here is a sequence of Tanquana hilmarii shots taken over 1-2 minutes after getting the capsule wet.

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[daiv]

Weird stuff Ian! SO you can practically see that in real time?

[peterb]

Ah, definitely would be put in whipplei then. Imbricata doesn't come that far into AZ, according to the field workers. Especially across more northern AZ, there are a lot of very upright, stocky chollas that are considered whipplei. It's odd, since the other form, low and mat forming, is more familiar to all of us.

peterb