A close up.
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Hello Bill this is my cassytha it is in a 16 cm. bowl I've had it for 20 years or so and it is just coming out of its winter rest hence the red colour.
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Thank you Chris, looking up that name on the net shows plants with a similar lengthening of the spines just before flowering.[email]http://www.rhz.pl/cleistocactus/cactus/icosaganus.jpg[/email]

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I am not sure what it is this is it a little later.

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The first photo was done at 400 this one is 800.

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Hello all I am attempting to post pictures using photo resize.

hello Aloenut definately go for it.It is a very useful series of books but you have to remember to keep flicking forwards to the later volumes to see what the names have been changed to!

How about Lenophyllum guttatum?

Hello I keep a 6x2x2.5 tank with silver dollars and plecos(very spiny). This site is very good for catfish

on the next page there is a cristatus var schonlandii which looks slightly closer.