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| BEAVERTAIL CACTUS -- OPUNTIA BASILARIS |
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| Descent: |
from California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona in the USA till Sonora Desert in north Mexico |
| Size: |
15-30cm, forked at the ground |
| Blossom: |
purple / carmine |
| Description: |
This plant is normally between 15 and 30cm high and is forked at the ground.
The limbs are oval or formed like a heart. They are grey to blue silver and have glochidias (bristles: little hairs of the Opuntia with dangerous barbs).
This sort of Opuntia Basilaris I have taken with me, when I was in Palm Springs / USA in 1998. |
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| PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS -- OPUNTIA PHAEACANTHA |
| Descent: |
New Mexico, Texas, Arizona |
| Size: |
1m high |
| Blossom: |
big orange, salmon blossoms |
| Description: |
This plant is lying and becomes over 1m high
The limbs become 10-15cm big. The glochidia are brownish yellow or green.
This sort I also found in the USA in 1998.
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| BARREL CACTUS -- FEROCACTUS ROBUSTUS |
| Descent: |
Mexico |
| Size: |
1m high
3m width |
| Blossom: |
yellow fruits, approx. 2.5cm long |
| Description: |
This plant forks very strong and built in their natural environment hundreds of sprouts. The plant can reach a high of 1m and a width of around 3m. |
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| FEROCACTUS HORRIDUS -- FEROCACTUS HORRIDUS |
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| Descent: |
south of Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Mexico |
| Size: |
1m high
30cm diameter |
| Description: |
looks like a ball, later a stretched body. Up to 1m long and 30cm diameter.
6-8 inflated reddish and curled middle thorn, one of them sticks out and is 12cm long and angular bent |
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| FEROCACTUS GLAUCESCENS -- FEROCACTUS GLAUCESCENS |
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| Descent: |
Utah, Nevada, Sonora Desert, low California and Arizona |
| Description: |
first like a ball, later a more stretched body and blue-green body, 13 ribs and 3cm long, yellow thorns |
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| SAGUARO CACTUS -- CARNEGIEA GIGANTEA |
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| Descent: |
Arizona, southwest California, Sonora Desert, Gila Desert |
| Size: |
up to 18 m high
up to 65 cm diameter |
| Description: |
1933 there was built a nature reserve of 315kmē for this plant.
These cactuses are the symbol of Arizona.
High up to 18 m and a diameter of up to 65 cm. A 5 m plant weights aprrox. 750kg.
The growth is so slow, that the plant 2 years after seeding is only 8cm high and after 30 years just 1m high. |
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| APPLE CACTUS -- CEREUS PERUVIANUS |
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| Descent: |
South Brazil and North Argentina |
| Size: |
some meters high
approx. 20 cm diameter |
| Description: |
The forked trunk looks like a pillar and becomes several meters high and around 20 cm thick.
The shoots are dark green and become approx. 15 cm long. From the upper shoots there are blossoms growing outside.
My species comes from the marked garden Uhlig near Stuttgart
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| SILVER TORCH CACTUS -- CLEISTOCACTUS STRAUSSII |
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| Descent: |
Bolivia, Argentinia |
| Size: |
up to 3 m high
5 - 8 cm diameter |
| Description: |
The light green shoots are 5 till 8 cm thick and around 3 m high.
The shoots are forked at the ground; 30 - 40 white, bristles like thorns at the border and intersects, so the shoots are covered.
My species comes from the marked garden Uhlig near Stuttgart. |
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| OLD MAN OF THE ANDES -- OREOCEREUS CELSIANUS |
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| Descent: |
Peru, Bolivia, North of Argentina, North of Chile |
| Size: |
> 1m high
8 - 12cm diameter |
| Description: |
This species becomes over 1m high and 8 - 12 cm thick.
The trunk is covered with fine, white and silky bundles of hairs. At the trunk there are growing 1 till 4 red-brown, strong middle-thorns with a length of up to 8 cm.
My species comes from the marked garden Uhlig near Stuttgart. |
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| GOLDEN BARREL CACTUS -- ECHINOCACTUS GRUSONII |
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| Descent: |
South USA, North and Middle Mexico |
| Size: |
up to 1 m high
up to 80 cm diameter |
| Blossom: |
small and yellow, they are inside like a crown around the centre. |
| Description: |
This species becomes approx. 1m high, up to 80cm thick.
It has 30 robs, each of them covered with approx. 3 cm long thorns. All thorns are gold-yellow and become white in later years. |
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| QUEEN VICTORIA AGAVE -- AGAVE-VICTORIAE-REGINAE |
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| Descent: |
South USA, Mexico |
| Size: |
up to 60 cm width |
| Description: |
Becomes up to 60cm broad. Leaves are dark green with white, oblique rising lines.
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| DRACAENA MARGINATA -- DRACAENA SP |
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| Descent: |
Canary Islands |
| Description: |
I plant this species in 1996.
These plants become real trees in their cradle but have no annual rings.
In my vivarium this Dragon Tree thrives very well.
2 times a year I cut off the lower leaves. |
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| QUEEN OF THE NIGHT ORGANILLO -- SELENCEREUS GRANDIFLORUS |
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| Descent: |
Texas, West India |
| Blossom: |
25-30cm big blossoms with a strong smell of vanilla |
| Description: |
25cm thick shoots, which can become several meters long.
The blossoms become 25 till 30cm big and smell strongly ā la vanilla. But these are preferred by the Chucks.
The blossoms open in the evening and reach their biggest opening a midnight. |
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| PALM SPRING PALM -- PALMS SPRING PALM |
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| Descent: |
Palm Springs USA |
| Description: |
Planted in 1998 in my vivarium, today I have 2 of these great palms.
They are growing very slowly and need a very bright and hot location. |
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| OCOTILLO -- OCOTILLO |
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| Descent: |
Sonora Desert, Arizona |
| Description: |
This White Desert Bush only sometimes needs water.
The shrub can lay up water for several months and becomes some meters high. In midsummer you can only see the twigs with their reddish thorns, but as soon as you pour the bush it becomes beautiful and colourful.
My Sauromalus Obesus and Hispidus stuff the twigs bare. |
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© 2004 — Alex |
Besucher seit 20. August 2004:  |
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