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General and Off Topic => General Discussion => Topic started by: happyconcacti on October 18, 2013, 03:21:29 AM

Title: HCC's Photos of Cacti at Local Nurseries
Post by: happyconcacti on October 18, 2013, 03:21:29 AM

Hi All,

Cacti nurseries are very abundant in the area. I'm going to take photos at the nurseries and put them here.

For identification purposes, I'll try to keep it to cacti that are labeled with the species.

I've been telling the nurseries that its a serious pain when they sell cacti simply labeled as "assorted cacti". I tell them that learning about the specific species is half the fun of growing it. But alas, some of the "asst. cacti" are just too far interesting to not post.  ;)

Please feel free to ID any of the unknowns!

HCC

Title: Re: Photos of Cacti from Local Nurseries
Post by: happyconcacti on October 18, 2013, 03:28:30 AM

As of today, I'm the proud care-taker of a Mammillaria parkinsonii (first picture below). parkinsonii's common name is "owl's eyes" which makes sense from picture 3.


Also, here are a bunch of the unknowns. The first one I found particularly strange.

Title: Re: HCC's Photos of Cacti from Local Nurseries
Post by: Sunshine on October 18, 2013, 03:55:55 AM

Damn, that's a hell of a lot of cactus bro. Must have cost you a fortune eh?

Title: Re: HCC's Photos of Cacti from Local Nurseries
Post by: happyconcacti on October 18, 2013, 08:03:50 AM

Quote from: Sunshine on October 18, 2013, 03:55:55 AM

Damn, that's a hell of a lot of cactus bro. Must have cost you a fortune eh?

No, no. I took the photos AT the nursery.

The only one I bought was $6.

 :) hcc

Title: Re: HCC's Photos of Cacti at Local Nurseries
Post by: Sunshine on October 18, 2013, 08:16:15 AM

Oh, hahahaha. I seen the price of one was like 50$ and there were like 20 pics so I was thinking you spent like 1k$+ hahaha