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PostSubject: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyThu Jul 03, 2008 12:20 am

just for fun.... I have picked 5 photos of some common plants. there are no trick photos.

can anyone pick what they are? there are no prizes as yet. Wink

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#1=
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#4=
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good luck!
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PostSubject: Re: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyThu Jul 03, 2008 12:12 pm

1. Ariocarpus retusus
2. Lophophora diffusa
3. Astrophytum ornatum
4. copiapoa sp.
5. a tall one
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PostSubject: Re: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyThu Jul 03, 2008 12:42 pm

Ariocarpus sp
Loph Sp
Astro Ornatum
no idea
some sort of cereus?

Im hopeless with cacti names.
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PostSubject: Re: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyThu Jul 03, 2008 8:00 pm

I would have agreed with lewis, except to take a guess with #5 and say T. Bridgii
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PostSubject: Re: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyThu Jul 03, 2008 8:07 pm

your guess is better than mine (but it is a 'tall one').. i'm a total columnar noob. Laughing
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PostSubject: Re: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyThu Jul 03, 2008 8:27 pm

I could be wrong, I'm not an expert at tall things, but the cereus I have seen are normally short spines. Bridgesii are out there with their deadly spines.
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PostSubject: Re: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyThu Jul 03, 2008 8:50 pm

pretty good so far guys - although you are on the wrong track for 5 - heres a nother pic of 5

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PostSubject: Re: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyThu Jul 03, 2008 8:56 pm

Tricocereus Peruvianus?

Mine has a bite like a dingo when it spines me...
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PostSubject: Re: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyThu Jul 03, 2008 9:10 pm

1 - Ariocarpus retusus




2 Lophophora diffusa





3 Astrophytum ornatum





4 Copiapoa echinoides

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PostSubject: Re: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyThu Jul 03, 2008 9:15 pm

Damn,
would never have guessed a

Myrtillocactus schenckii
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PostSubject: Re: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyThu Jul 03, 2008 9:22 pm

Very Happy

how did you get it?

Myrtilocactus are cool Smile
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PostSubject: Re: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyThu Jul 03, 2008 9:39 pm

Process of elimination Very Happy

It wasn't one of the usual suspects, so you had to be displaying something more sneaky.

my next guess was going to be a blossfeldia
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PostSubject: Re: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyThu Jul 03, 2008 9:40 pm

Actually I have to admit noticing the logo on your picture and then trawled the site until I found it - only took 25 minutes.

But I got to look at a lot of nice tall cacti lol


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PostSubject: Re: know your cacti   know your cacti EmptyFri Jul 04, 2008 6:49 am

funny that I did the same thing Laughing
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