Cacti reflecting Sunlight

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Cacti reflecting Sunlight

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Hi,

Having had some clouds with sporadic Sun rays I decided to take some images of our Cacti collection. Mexico is one of the countries in the world with a huge amount of different cacti and where I live in the semidesert central Mexico is where we have a lot of them.


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Here some images of mostly unknown Cacti.

This flower developed in less then 3 days. " Echinopsis Multiplex "


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Nature has also Black holes :lol:


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Cacti do also get grey hair :lol: The next one we call here in Mexico Granny " Viejito " = Cephalocereus senilis


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and here a Forbidden Fruit " Lophophora Williamsii " or in common Spanish Peyote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote

This one gives beautiful light pink flowers when in bloom. This one wanted to bloom but the flower did not come out right and died before growing.


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Nice collection you have there, Rainer.

I had never seen that "hairy" one before; looks pretty cool :cool:


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That is great collection!! I love the Mexico granny :lol:

I am sure I can see a baby 'Mother in law's cushion' in there too :) they do give cacti great names!

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JochenM wrote: Sun Aug 09, 2020 9:14 am Nice collection you have there, Rainer.

I had never seen that "hairy" one before; looks pretty cool :cool:
Be aware that under the grey hair there are nice sharp pointed thorns ...


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Montana wrote: Sun Aug 09, 2020 11:00 am That is great collection!! I love the Mexico granny :lol:

I am sure I can see a baby 'Mother in law's cushion' in there too :) they do give cacti great names!

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Yes that is what they call a Golden Barrel " Echinocactus Grusonii "

There are many of the family of " Echinocactus ... " and they grow huge in size in the wild. Perhaps I find some of my old images.


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Thanks Rainer.Succulents are very popular here as house plants but not so much those with spines.


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