Argentina &Chile --- Nov 2008 -- Day14 -- Cafayate to Salta --- 185 km

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Re: Argentina &Chile --- Nov 2008 -- Day14 -- Cafayate to Salta --- 185 km

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Bidding a sad farewell to the beautiful Opuntias we climbed back into the bus for a little more gentle driving through the very green and pleasant valley until around fourty minutes later we stopped beside the road. We were quite a distance above the valley floor here with pleasing views down to the river(Red).
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Of course we quickly turned our backs to the river and made our way through the roadside shrubbery into the start of a dried up stream bed generously laced with large boulders and spikey shrubs. Still we were promised around eight species of cacti here all within a a couple of hundred yards of the road....we just had to scramble up the stream bed to find them...
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A few yards in we encountered our first plant and what a stunner......
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Trichocereus (Echinopsis) thelegonus. Not one that I would want to grow at home or even scramble through unforgiving bushes for again.
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However when we cast our eyes around and found one in bud I was quite impressed.
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Pity it wasn't open but it was still relativly early in the day.
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However a little further in we passed a very large boulder and growing in a crevise on the side of it, almost obscured by mud was......
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Yes a much happier looking Blossfeldia liliputana.
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And some more looking very plump and displaying a developing seed pod.
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Further up we began to encounter quite large numbers of this plant which I have no recorded name for.
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It was nice to see some healthy looking Blossfeldias here. This one has tucked itself in nicely under a Bromeliad.

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Now those plants that Mike wasn't sure about. Neither am I, but I dare say Alain or someone else will put us right. This is the plant in question. I have the suggestion of Echinopsis (Lobivia) chrysantha, though I'm open to other suggestions. Clearly an Echinopsis (Lobivia) of some sort.

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Another view of a plant in full bud.

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