WoodDragon
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Hey Torsten, and everyone else.
I too was refreshing my tabs for the last week like a trained rat pressing a lever in a cage - yes, my name is Woody and I'm a SABaholic...
Like everyone else I'm glad that we're back reasonably intact. I had an order in on 9 June, so hopefully I won't need to bother you further Torsten.
Speaking of things in the mail: Bob-bob, if you're reading, I got my seeds in the mail and the first gordonii is poking its head from the sand. I posted a great long thankyou about half an hour before the server went down, so I won't attempt to repeat my profuse thanks, but if thos cutting I mentioned recover I'll keep you in mind. Thanks again.
Ahhh, we're baaack!
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Dude, sorry to hear about your circumstances. Major bummer, and I can empathise... hope things turn for the better soon. I'll chuck in my 2 bits worth to the cosmos.
I'd love to have a peak at your collection, especially as it's a bit harder down here in Tassie to build up one myself, but I'll be away for the next week and a bit, so I'll probably miss out on the supercool stuff if you put it on S&S. Still, might pm you when I return, to see what's left.
Take it easy, and hopefully fortune with grin down on you a bit soon.
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I don't think that I am able to match many of the photos that have been contributed to this thread, but I have one more to add to my paultry efforts before I have to take my leave for a week or so and catch endangered beasties in the wilderness.
This one is not funny in a humourous sense, but it's certainly funny in a botanical sense...
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I stumbled across this during my perusings, and thought that there might be a Melbournian or two who may be interested.
"Large Cactus Plant in Cement Pot" Item number: 120265095865
I'd probably bid myself, being the rabid collector that I am at the moment, but unfortunately I live interstate
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Get a load of this!
I wonder if an unfortunate person could be done for carting 'trafficable quantities'?
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Then there's the hard-core shamanic cat...
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I thought that I might be in with a chance, but Baphomet at #21 seems to have pushed the bar higher than I could have anticipated!
(Working title: "I'll see your Clitoria, and raise you...")
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Something a bit more chlorophyllous than Passive Daemon's effort, that is!
Though I guess you could say that was monstrose...
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I'm generally a lurker, but your birthday definitely deserves a hat-tip.
Cheers Torsten, and my thanks too for hosting a most excellent resource.
I have to say that I've been waiting for hours for someone to post a 'creative' birthday cake image! Or is it just my fevered botanical mind that went there?
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Good call Andrew - I chased it up and immediately confirmed them as Ugni molinae. I'm kinda chagrined at not having a stab at 'Chilean guava' myself - I've heard a fair bit about Chilean guavas or Tazziberries, but I've not seen them before and I never bothered to investigate further, and it just didn't click in my head yesterday that this is what I might have had.
I could take better photos in daylight (my supermacro function doesn't seem to allow flash), but now that I know what they are it's probably easier for the curious here to google them.
As to whether they are yummy - I tested a few of the fruit on various family members and everyone loved them! They are delicious, although their small size means that it's only a little orgasm in your mouth each time you eat one. I ate them with the calyx intact - a bit scratchy and woody, but hardly worth the effort of removing! I did note that the plant from which I gathered the fruit was in robust health, and subject to very cold nights, so the high quality of the fruit might reflect these conditions, and folk in warmer climes might be less impressed if they grew their own.
The leaves are apparently used as a tea, and the seeds as a coffee substitute, but quite frankly I doubt that any future fruit I grow would last in sufficient quantities with which to make coffee! I can see fruit salad and jam ahead for any plants that I grow.
I will try to strike the cuttings that I have, but although I took heels it seems that it's not quite the right time of year. Still, I'll have a bash... If I have any success, I will try to grow up a few of the beasties to offer to the community here. Of course, your local nursery could well stock them, but if not - well, I'll do my best.
Oh, and sorry for missing the sub-forum when I posted. I'm temporarily on dial-up, and with my frustration at waiting for page after page to load I didn't notice that my click on the non-cactus ID link missed the mark. Thanks for moving me to the appropriate place planthelper!
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Well met fellow travellers.
This is not the type of first post that I thought I would contribute to these pages, but I am bursting with curiosity at the moment, and I thought that if any forum might help me then this might be it.
I was given some shrubby fruit cuttings today by a girl who referred to them as 'peruvian pomegranates'. The leaves are thick, dark and glossy, almost like a rice flower's, and the fruits themselves are about the size of a blue-berry, and pink to red in colour. They have a delicious taste, sweet and estery with a hint of tannin following, but no seeds to speak of as a 'real' pomegranate has - just a white flesh with perhaps one white seed 2 or 3 mm diameter.
The shrub itself was about a metre high and wide, although as it is growing in a cool climate this might not be its maximum possible size. The new growth is a pinkish-red, with opposite leaves, and the stems are quite wirey.
I've googled around but I can't find any indication of what this plant is. I'd love to find out so that I can try to optimise my strike rate - the fruit really is wonderful. I've been around countless fruit species in my time, but this is a new one for me. I am not convinced that this is actually a Punicum, and it may not even be South American, but I thought that I would plumb the wisdom here in the hope that someone has seen it before.
Hopefully I will manage to attach a photo to help with an ID.
Cheers, and thanks in advance for any help!
Ultimate Cactus Rooting Method
in Cacti & Succulents
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George.
A couple of questions:
Do you let the fresh cut dry a little first, or do you start rubbing the day that you slice it?
Do you continue once the callus starts to form, or do you leave alone when you see the first signs?
Thanks in advance.
Must say that I'm enjoying this thread - I love little tricks like these, that push things along faster and more reliably than otherwise might happen in a climate like mine!