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terraferma

A very fat one to ID

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Please let me know what you think these plants are.

PLANT #1:

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Hey Teraferma, you always come across some amazing plants. Both are Saguaros. Carnegia Gigantea. Truly majestic.

Edited by Evil Genius

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Nope, Saguaro's don't have flower hair. Those are T. terscheckii.

~Michael~

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yayy i thought spineless terscheckii too ! [one that gets 'spineless' with age]

but got stumped at EG's post cuz i dnno saguaros at all :blush:

at least now it makes perfect sense why they call terscheckii the argentine saguaro :)

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I'm growing both of those species & I couldn't tell either way.

The Carnegias seem to have gnarlier spines - there's some calssic botanical insight right there :unsure:

Stuffed if I know

 

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Yes, you´re right. Didnt expand the images because it looked so much like Carnegia. But the expanded pics show a lot spinier cactus including the hairy flowers.

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Thanks for the input, guys!! :)

I guess that this following plant (#3) is also Terscheckii, right?

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Yup, you bet.

~Michael~

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