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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 27, 2020 8:57:27 GMT
Exciting, Mick, and such a credit to your skills that it has bloomed at what seems a young age. Edited to add thank you for all the IDs and further information! I’m not that young but thanks anyway!
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 1, 2020 12:11:52 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Sept 1, 2020 14:06:28 GMT
What a little darling! The star shape makes me think of starfish.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2020 20:17:42 GMT
Really, really different! Stapelia? Orbea? Huernia? Something else?
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 1, 2020 20:51:51 GMT
Stapelia flavopupurea. And it actually has a very pleasant scent! Flowers can be green, brown or yellow.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2020 22:44:27 GMT
It's truly wonderful. I'll bet little kids would flip over that plant.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 7, 2020 14:17:36 GMT
Huernia guttata
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Post by tod2 on Sept 7, 2020 15:56:09 GMT
Oh Mick it is adorable. If you can call a spiky thing 'adorable'.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 7, 2020 16:34:37 GMT
For those who know a bit about cacti, what do you reckon this is? Clue - it’s not what it seems to be.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 7, 2020 17:20:58 GMT
Is it a cristate form of an Opuntia?
Whatever it is, it is some kind of grafted thing.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 7, 2020 17:40:55 GMT
Certainly isn’t on either count.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 7, 2020 17:42:33 GMT
Think of the least likely cactus it could be.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 8, 2020 0:10:15 GMT
Something in the family of Easter or Christmas cactus, Rhipsalidopsis / Hatiora ~ ? ? ?
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 8, 2020 6:26:46 GMT
You have it. It’s a Christmas cactus Schlumbergera opuntioides.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 10, 2020 13:46:02 GMT
I wouldn't want to use it to scrub my back.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 13, 2020 22:39:21 GMT
Guess who hauled the large Agave stricta from the upper part of the patio to the lower, dumped it out of its pot without breaking any leaves, groomed all the dead stuff from the bottom, re-potted it quite nicely, then dragged it back to the upper patio and lifted the very heavy thing into a pot holder.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 14, 2020 6:30:09 GMT
Good girl!
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 14, 2020 16:07:51 GMT
Thanks! I only got one teeny puncture wound and still have both my eyes.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 14, 2020 16:37:34 GMT
I’ve stabbed myself in the head more than once with Agaves...
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 14, 2020 16:41:22 GMT
I know what you mean! Those head stabs hurt like holy hell, too. More than once I've given thanks that I was wearing glasses while working with agaves. I have many slashes on my legs from walking around my crowded patio.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 14, 2020 17:31:31 GMT
I backed on to an Agave in my outside bed a couple of days ago and stabbed myself in the calf. There was a lot of blood. Again.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 14, 2020 20:28:51 GMT
The main one that likes to reach out and stab me is not an Agave, but Aloe ferox. That could change, though, now that I have moved Agave stricta front & center in the patio.
I also tend to drift around in my housecoat in the morning looking at my plants. This is a valuable oportunity for some of the shorter spiny things to hook onto my hem and pull themselves over.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 15, 2020 18:58:40 GMT
Mick could make pink mezcal, perhaps an upcoming fad.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 19, 2020 12:32:37 GMT
Huernia volkartii
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 19, 2020 15:30:23 GMT
The plump darling!
What is the plant immediately behind it to the left, in the white speckled pot?
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 19, 2020 16:27:46 GMT
Ibervillea sonorae
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Post by tod2 on Sept 19, 2020 18:32:04 GMT
That is such an unusual colour and shaped flower Mick. Almost too pretty for a fat spiky plant. I have planted succulents in all the pots at the BnB entrances merely because they won't keel over and die if forgotten to water occasionally. Maybe I should show you what I've got planted. I don't know the names of any of them.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 19, 2020 21:34:07 GMT
Almost too pretty for a fat spiky plant. Nooooo, Tod! You need to learn to love succulents and their odd charms.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 21, 2020 7:14:18 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Sept 21, 2020 7:27:56 GMT
There can't be a better shade of pink and is the darker flower the colour 'fuchsia?
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