Hi all.
I've just finished a travelogue of my most recent Mexico trip, in case anyone is interested in wasting a few minutes.
Here is the link, hopefully.
I'd be pleased to have some firm IDs of the cacti we saw, if anyone knows? I didn't include pics of that many , but have another bucket-full of unkowns as well.
Mexico January 2007 Travelogue
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Re: Mexico January 2007 Travelogue
Hi paul,
The lin works and your pictures are fantastic, thanks for sharing them.
The lin works and your pictures are fantastic, thanks for sharing them.
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Yes Paul , great set of photos!! :D
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Excellent and totally outstanding trip report!
Anyone know what the plant on the page for the 21st is? Looks like aMamm or a Cory, but can't place it - its the upstanding golden spines that don't fit for me...
You can tell I'm more of a cactus person! but we obviously have a similar taste in statues - I have some of excatly those you have posted - at the Anthopology Museum - fantastic place.
Anyone know what the plant on the page for the 21st is? Looks like aMamm or a Cory, but can't place it - its the upstanding golden spines that don't fit for me...
You can tell I'm more of a cactus person! but we obviously have a similar taste in statues - I have some of excatly those you have posted - at the Anthopology Museum - fantastic place.
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Fantastic ,thanks for sharing !
With regards from Belgium,
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Great stuff Paul - thanks for sharing!!
I was going to say Mammillaria elongata Chris.
I was going to say Mammillaria elongata Chris.
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Thanks, Vic, you have it right.
That was one of my possibilities, but my cultivated plant doesn't have spines so dense or so many obvious centrals, but after looking for a while, I found a very similar looking plant on Mammillarias.net, a habitat photo by Michel Lacoste ML63.
That was one of my possibilities, but my cultivated plant doesn't have spines so dense or so many obvious centrals, but after looking for a while, I found a very similar looking plant on Mammillarias.net, a habitat photo by Michel Lacoste ML63.
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Re: Mexico January 2007 Travelogue
I'm glad you posted it here too - I was going to ask if I could put a link on here as I knew there'd be interest.
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Wow, I've read the first few days, sounds a great adventure. I can't get over how huge the plants are! But no Agave americana, like Geoff's.
That eccentric garden must have been incredible, I could have spent days there. It certainly beats Portmeirion.
That eccentric garden must have been incredible, I could have spent days there. It certainly beats Portmeirion.
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NB. Anyone failing to provide a sensible name for me to address them will be called, or referred to, as Fred.