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watertrade
Calm and Collected
Number of posts: 260
Location: Canberra
Registration date: 2008-05-16
 | | Subject: know your cacti Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:20 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.  #1  #2  #3  #4  #5  #1= #2= #3= #4= #5= good luck! |
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lewis
avid contributor & moderator
Number of posts: 863
Location: Melbourne
Registration date: 2008-05-07
| | Subject: Re: know your cacti Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:12 pm | |
| 1. Ariocarpus retusus
2. Lophophora diffusa
3. Astrophytum ornatum
4. copiapoa sp.
5. a tall one |
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MichaelCactus
Calm and Collected
Number of posts: 293
Location: Bendigo
Registration date: 2008-06-24
| | Subject: Re: know your cacti Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:42 pm | |
| Ariocarpus sp
Loph Sp
Astro Ornatum
no idea
some sort of cereus?
Im hopeless with cacti names. |
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calycium
Moderator
Number of posts: 423
Location: Adelaide, SA
Registration date: 2008-04-06
| | Subject: Re: know your cacti Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:00 pm | |
| I would have agreed with lewis, except to take a guess with #5 and say T. Bridgii |
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lewis
avid contributor & moderator
Number of posts: 863
Location: Melbourne
Registration date: 2008-05-07
| | Subject: Re: know your cacti Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:07 pm | |
| your guess is better than mine (but it is a 'tall one').. i'm a total columnar noob.  |
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calycium
Moderator
Number of posts: 423
Location: Adelaide, SA
Registration date: 2008-04-06
| | Subject: Re: know your cacti Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:27 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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watertrade
Calm and Collected
Number of posts: 260
Location: Canberra
Registration date: 2008-05-16
| | Subject: Re: know your cacti Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:50 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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calycium
Moderator
Number of posts: 423
Location: Adelaide, SA
Registration date: 2008-04-06
| | Subject: Re: know your cacti Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:56 pm | |
| Tricocereus Peruvianus?
Mine has a bite like a dingo when it spines me... |
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watertrade
Calm and Collected
Number of posts: 260
Location: Canberra
Registration date: 2008-05-16
| | Subject: Re: know your cacti Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:10 pm | |
| 1 - Ariocarpus retusus
2 Lophophora diffusa
3 Astrophytum ornatum
4 Copiapoa echinoides
5 |
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calycium
Moderator
Number of posts: 423
Location: Adelaide, SA
Registration date: 2008-04-06
| | Subject: Re: know your cacti Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:15 pm | |
| Damn,
would never have guessed a
Myrtillocactus schenckii |
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watertrade
Calm and Collected
Number of posts: 260
Location: Canberra
Registration date: 2008-05-16
| | Subject: Re: know your cacti Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:22 pm | |
|  how did you get it? Myrtilocactus are cool  |
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calycium
Moderator
Number of posts: 423
Location: Adelaide, SA
Registration date: 2008-04-06
| | Subject: Re: know your cacti Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:39 pm | |
| Process of elimination 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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calycium
Moderator
Number of posts: 423
Location: Adelaide, SA
Registration date: 2008-04-06
| | Subject: Re: know your cacti Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:40 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
Last edited by calycium on Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:05 am; edited 1 time in total |
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San Rainbow
Calm and Collected
Number of posts: 172
Location: south of the border
Registration date: 2008-04-21
| | Subject: Re: know your cacti Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:49 am | |
| funny that I did the same thing |
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