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Cacti and succulents out in the world: please share your photos!

6 years ago

So I thought it might be fun to have a thread where we could post photos of succulents that aren't ours. Whether in parks, gardens, homes or in the wild.
I know not everyone lives in places where succulents are that common outdoors, but if you do please share some photos so everyone can enjoy.

I often see plants that i think are interesting and lovely and maybe worth sharing, but are not really worth starting a new thread so now I'll post the pictures here.

First off, this variegated opuntia lives near a grocery store I go to sometimes. It's big, maybe 2 metres. I think it is opuntia monacantha variegata monstrose. Of course I have taken a few pads to grow : )






Comments (14)

  • 6 years ago

    How about a Crested Saguaro at the Desert Museum in Tucson?

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  • 6 years ago

    This one I took from a moving city bus in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. Sorry for the window reflection.


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    Wow, thanks, great plants, folks. That Allauadia is lovely, it's a plant I wasn't aware of until you posted it, Crenda. Now I want to visit the ' Madagascar spiny forests'. And, very cool that you have such lovely cacti and succulents in public places.

    Hoovb, that is an awesome cactus. I'd love something, anything, crested.

    Chuckerfly, it is so tall! Well done for getting such a good photo from a moving vehicle. Actually it looks like it could be the same cactus that grows in a garden that I sometimes walk by, I think it is the tallest cactus I have ever seen in person. Unfortunately the plant is a little too far from the footpath to get a decent photo, at least with my equipment (ie my tablet). I am hoping one day the residents will be in the yard when i walk by and I will ask them if I can take some photos from in their garden. Anyway here is a bad photo of the very tall cactus, it's in the centre:


    Here is another bad photo:


    In this photo you can zoom in and see a smaller cactus of the same type above the shrub near the centre, it looks very similar to your cactus, Chuckerfly. Lucky cactus has ocean views : )

  • 6 years ago

    Nice shares!

    The only photo I have on my phone at present is from Trois Rivieres, Quebec when we were there for a concert (staying in Montreal for Jazz Fest but our host took us on a road trip!)

    Just plain ‘ol Echeveria PVN in this tree well, but I was enchanted nonetheless :)

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  • 6 years ago

    Bunkfree, those PvNs look neat! It's one of my favorite Echeveria, but mine seems very prone to mealies infestation, never look so good... :(

    I found another photo of a spiky Aloe and a crocodile hanging out in Brasilia zoo

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  • 6 years ago

    I love PVN too :)

    found some pics from last June of the opuntia that grow all over my parents acreage near Drumheller

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  • 6 years ago

    Lovely, Bunkfree, thanks. I would have been enchanted too.
    Some flowering jades in the grounds of the local technical college:

  • 6 years ago

    Oh wow Chuckerfly what a perfect and special combination!

    Bunkfree do you know what kind of opuntia? It's very nice.

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    Having slipped and fallen on them many times while rock hunting out there ... I call them the “ouchy kind” hahahah! I suspect these are polycantha. There’s also some smaller rounder types (not pictured) with more coral-coloured flowers that may be fragilis. My mom picked a flower and brought it to me, and it rooted!

    Kd

  • 6 years ago

    Oh no, they would be very bad to fall on! Just this week I had to remove a couple of 'splinters' from my fingers that I think were glochids that were really tiny, so I didn't notice them for some time until they got very sore and inflamed.
    What sort of rock collecting do you do??

    Here is a patch of kalanchoe fedtschenkoi near me. In flower in a rather neglected garden, It's looking very pink due to winter and drought.


  • 6 years ago

    This one was taken by the Wharf in Monterey


    These are from Disneyland/California Adventure



  • 6 years ago

    Saw some Euphorbia milii earlier today. It's a shame about the trash, but it's on a commercial area where no one seems to care for it. A lot of these are used as hedges near my apartment building, but I've never seen one grows flattened like that.

  • 2 months ago

    Love the idea of sharing plant photos. I have a big indoor collection. 137 species of cacti, succulents and topicals. I've attached photos of my collection - most of it anyway.