Continuing yesterday's post, here are some more strange cactus plants on Meitar's little mountain.
After the first rains they seem to be bursting forth in growth.
Hopefully José of Lisbon and the Sunny Coast blog will drop by and teach me the proper terms for what we are seeing, since he grows cacti and knows all about them.
You can click two separate times and enlarge the photos.
The same plant seen from above.
Yellow cups as if for catching the rainwater after seven months of dry season with no rain!
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(For ABC Wednesday, V is for varied varieties of vertical cactuses.)
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UPDATE: Jose, of Lisbon and the Sunny Coast blog, has indeed given us lots of information on the plants! Do see his comment on this post and on yesterday's post! Thanks, Jose!
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Just perused your cacti posts - aren't they amazing! Walking through a cactus garden (there is a HUGE one at the Huntington Library near Pasadena) reminds me of walking underneath the sea where there are also so many odd, strange and wonderful shapes and colors.
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ReplyDeleteSara, nice thought. :)
ReplyDeleteI walked in that Huntington Library garden once a decade ago. But what I remember of it is that a little toddler fell on one of the prickly cacti. Oi, poor kid.
Two nice comments in a row about cacti are stretching my sincerity and goodwill, but I quite like the big ones!
ReplyDeleteCacti are amazing, wonderful pictures!
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What a magnificent specimen (#1)! Pity the blooms are already dead.
ReplyDeleteThe Prickly Pears below, different from the one on your previous post, belongs to the genus Opuntia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia). The yellow capsule is the fruit (fig) and it's edible in most cases, as well as the "round stems" (have tried it in Mexico, where it's called Nopal).
What amazing pictures of the Cacti, I wouldn't like to walk to close to any of them though !
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Di.x
enjoyed your images,
ReplyDeletelive, green, and refreshing inspirations for V word here.
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VERY vertical!
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José, thanks for teaching us about these wonderful plants here in the comments and in the previous post!
ReplyDeleteReaders, don't miss José's interesting information!
Your post and the comment of some people above are very informative, for these plants don't grow in my country outside a greenhouse. Thanks, Dina,
ReplyDeleteHave a great week.
Wil, ABCW Team
They look peculiar, but I rather like them!
ReplyDeleteNever knew how beautiful and varied cactus can be till I came to live in California (I bought a flowering one last year)!
ReplyDeleteStrange :) Prickly Pears grow in Bermuda too, where I lived for a while as a kid. You can eat the fruit, which is purple there.
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderful shots. In the first shot the cacti look like a suricats group too fumny.
ReplyDeleteMargaux
'Varied varieties of vertical cactus' - I love it!
ReplyDeleteHappy Wednesday!
Lea
Why did I immediately think 'giraffe' when I saw first image :) These cacti are weird and wonderful Dina, how fab that Jose was able to fill us in on the details, I always think of Jose when it comes to these types of plants.
ReplyDeleteReally funny, they look like giraffes ! (especially in the 1st shot)
ReplyDeleteAmazing photos of the versetile cacti!
ReplyDeleteSo neat... the first photo I thought the cactus looked like an ostrich... lol
ReplyDeleteThe last one reminds me of the Prickly Pear Cactus we had in California, only those fruits turned red. - Margy
ReplyDeleteLooks so comical-- looks like 3 long necked animals.
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