My friend said, the tissue has the sign of withering in recent days. So he has accepted the idea of grafting that tissue as Tina and Julie suggested. If there's something change in the future, I' ll urge him to post the photos.

Thank all of you for replying.

Flower of Mammillaria theresae

Agreed with jfabiao and Aiko's thought. According to its location, it is possibly to be some sort of offset instead of a pedicel. My friend said, neither agricultural chemical agent nor insecticide was used on the plant. And, it was raised from the seed, never been grafted. And it now is 3 years old...

Hello all, Those photos are from a friend of mine. He found this strange tissue last week. He did not have any idea what the tissue was. So he posted those photos on facebook in order to ask someone else. And we were curious and interested of its blooming location and its form. Some kind of monstrou...

Hi Nirwa Strictly speaking you still haven't got an agave, you have a hybrid :wink: . Indeed, that's a hybrid. But, in general, it's still an agave. :mrgreen: I'm only saying this as I'm suitably jealous with the amazing growth & prettiness you have in such a short time, I have a small plant th...

Some part of a flower of Huernia hystrix

My one and only agave. :wink: Baby offset. 01.29.2008 http://pic.pimg.tw/astrowp/1209369712.jpg 03.18.2008 http://pic.pimg.tw/astrowp/1209369831.jpg http://pic.pimg.tw/astrowp/1209369857.jpg Younger stage. June, 2009 http://pic.pimg.tw/astrowp/4a5e9c1b23090.jpg http://pic.pimg.tw/astrowp/4a5e9c5b56d...

I just thought, a good photo that shows something is much better than thousands of describing words, so I posted this thread. To Dave, quote [ ... Things are often worse in Asia and E. Europe since controls are not so stringent. ] Yes, let's take E. polycephalus as example, it's a very popular speci...

Hi everyone, Because I was trying to persuade some people not to buy those illegally collected plants in some C&S forum in Taiwan, I would like to show some photos of the severity and the ecological damages of illegally collection in its habitat. Could anyone provide me some of those pictures ? ...

As the title.

The black stick in the photos is the 0.5mm auto-pencil core.

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