Ann had one of these Ariocarpus fissuratus plants for a long time. It came in a cactus pkg of 3 plants from Walgreens or some drug store back in the 70s. I remember it sitting on a sunny window at Grant Street in Ft. Collins for several years. We moved to Wisconsin and it was one of the few house plants we had that lived long enough to make it to our house here on Winnebago st. We had it in some windows that probably didn't get enough light and we watered it when it didn't want water. In the late 1990s it died and we were both very sad. It took a long time to find a new one. The local greenhouses have never had any of these and we ended up buying some from places in Arizona. We found one in Iowa once. Now we have several of them from various greenhouses. This one is the largest and we found it on our vacation last spring.
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This Ferocactus was in bloom in the Tucson Botanical Gardens on our vacation. Very beautiful plant.
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These plants are really beautiful and I wish I had one of these in our back yard. However, I'm unwilling to live in a place hot enough to grow one outdoors, and I love to see snow in the winter. I'll have to be happy with the photo.
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This was one of the large Saguaros in Saguaro Park outside of Tucson. It was great to see these plants on our vacation, and the park is very beautiful.
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Just a nice photo of a Ferocactus, Opuntia and Cholla for fun
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This is the cactus to see in Organ Pipe National Monument, and we saw most of them just outside of the visitors center. They told us there were more of them in the south end of the park, but these roads were closed.
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Mammillaria are really wonderful cacti and I can see why some people actually try to collect all of them - and there are hundreds. This is another one from the Tucson Botanical Gardens.
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These were some Mammillaria growing in the Tucson Botanical Gardens - Wow.
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