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DoorsandRooms



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Cacti found near Salt Lake City... Opuntia sp.??
#12320319 - 04/02/10 09:11 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hiking in Yellow Fork Canyon near Salt Lake City, we spotted, I can only assume, thanks to the enhanced vision of my friend Peter and I, a cluster of dormant and shriveled Opuntia species. So it seems to be. Poor guys look to be suffering, but the fact that they are still present and alive provides me a reference that these beautiful plants are hardier than I imagined. To someone who didnt know better, they'd think they were dying. I'd apprieciate any info as to the certainty of the species, it's age, health, etc... or just enjoy the pics.... thanks!
very spiny! hard to ID?
see the spider?
-------------------- _________________________________________________________________ "Doors are a waste of time" Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in "The Doors" "Fungi are a living organism that is much more closely related to mammals such as humans, than to plants. People need to quit looking at mycelium as a different kind of plant, which it isn't. Mycelium has been shown to have circadian rhythms just like mammals" - RR
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TheUniversalMind
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Re: Cacti found near Salt Lake City... Opuntia sp.?? [Re: DoorsandRooms]
#12320456 - 04/02/10 09:31 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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I've seen a few different Opuntia species in Maryland near the Chesapeake Bay. I took a cutting from one opuntia and it was buried in about 4 feet of snow this winter for quite a while, just one pad as a cutting, and it survived. It's taken root since the snow melted.
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Kanker
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Re: Cacti found near Salt Lake City... Opuntia sp.?? [Re: TheUniversalMind]
#12320563 - 04/02/10 09:49 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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prickly pear.
-------------------- I'm ahead, I'm advanced I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher 2010, watch it go to fire. It's evolution baby. -Pearl Jam
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DoorsandRooms



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Re: Cacti found near Salt Lake City... Opuntia sp.?? [Re: Kanker]
#12320647 - 04/02/10 10:12 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Years back I took a few cuttings of some prickly pear from my grandmas plant in FL and the spines were not visible but pretty painful... like invisible splinters... the spikes on the plants above seem much bigger but i'd rather get stabbed with those... because you can at least see them! I broke a small branch of grandmas multi-decade-old prickly tree accidentally while examining it and I cried, mourning for the rest of the night. Feeling soo guilty like i cutoff an innocent, old, wise-mans arm. It was like that feeling when you make a huge mistake like a car accident and wish you could only take back one second. Its ok though.... provides me a reason to cultivate and compensate for the rest of my time on earth.
-------------------- _________________________________________________________________ "Doors are a waste of time" Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in "The Doors" "Fungi are a living organism that is much more closely related to mammals such as humans, than to plants. People need to quit looking at mycelium as a different kind of plant, which it isn't. Mycelium has been shown to have circadian rhythms just like mammals" - RR
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