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Ed Bannister
Mountain climber
Riverside, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 18, 2011 - 12:01pm PT
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Show us your cactus Pics! or desert blooms, ... is spring here already?
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Jan 18, 2011 - 12:33pm PT
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Jan 18, 2011 - 01:13pm PT
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Jan 18, 2011 - 01:29pm PT
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Jan 18, 2011 - 02:04pm PT
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I'm your huckleberry, that's just my game...
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jan 19, 2011 - 02:12am PT
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Seriously into cactus and succulents at one phase of my life. Spent a good 20 years developing 1/2 an acre into my little hideaway. Lot easier than Protea and Banksias!
Fun part was propagating many different species and giving them to friends. Looking forward to seeing the results over the years on visits back to Santa Cruz.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Jan 19, 2011 - 02:27am PT
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pattern
and shoe for scale
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redrocker
climber
LV, NV
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Jan 19, 2011 - 05:08am PT
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Jan 19, 2011 - 10:42am PT
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Lacey
Social climber
Burns,Oregon
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Jan 19, 2011 - 10:48am PT
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Oh, I thought you said, Cactus Pricks.......:)
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Rcklzrd
Trad climber
San Juan Capistrano
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Jan 19, 2011 - 11:01am PT
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We found this little guy growing out of a rock out in the Wonderlands.
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Ricardo Cabeza
climber
All Over.
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Jan 19, 2011 - 01:31pm PT
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Painter Springs
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blackbird
Trad climber
the flat water trails...
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Jan 19, 2011 - 04:40pm PT
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Jan 19, 2011 - 10:59pm PT
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I like these posts, NICE!!!
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sjellison
Mountain climber
Tucson, AZ
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Jan 19, 2011 - 11:14pm PT
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Jan 19, 2011 - 11:21pm PT
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guido - Awesome shots, Nice growth in that yard, bra!!!
Dr. F - What kind of magic conditions/grow room do you got? Your cacti are perfect specimen.
Great stuff.
That little guy stickin' out of the rock in "wonderlands"... doesn't that shot scream for a caption?
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all in jim
climber
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Jan 20, 2011 - 02:27am PT
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Stick em up!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jan 20, 2011 - 10:08pm PT
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kaitb
Big Wall climber
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Jan 20, 2011 - 10:43pm PT
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Doing some field mapping right now near the border of California and Mexico in the Colorado Desert. We have run into quite a few of these little buggers!
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Jan 21, 2011 - 01:02am PT
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jan 21, 2011 - 01:09am PT
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Hey boys-me think you would have better luck with some welder gloves.
Dr F-would be cool if you could label those photos.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 21, 2011 - 01:15am PT
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MisterE,
Thought that dood was a semi-nekked motocross moron and then I
saw the golf clubs. Full contact golfing!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jan 21, 2011 - 01:26am PT
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Whole lotta holes in one?
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Jan 21, 2011 - 04:26am PT
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Dr. F
Thanks for the photos. I'm curious. Are you involved with cactus as a hobby, as a commercial operation or for a university botannical garden?
Whatever the reason, you clearly have spent years at it.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jan 21, 2011 - 11:26am PT
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Joshua Tree Nat Mnmt:
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
WA, & NC & Idaho
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Jan 21, 2011 - 11:33am PT
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Love the pics Y'all!
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Jan 24, 2011 - 09:54pm PT
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Jan 24, 2011 - 11:39pm PT
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Jan 25, 2011 - 12:41am PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 25, 2011 - 12:48am PT
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hey there say, Dr. F.... i never knew this...
i think i did see a few post of you, and cactus... but didn't know how
much you loved them...
thanks for all the shares...
my thoughts and/or memories of cactus:
1--when we were really little kids, our dad drove us from ohio, to calif... through arizona we saw the segorro (spelling?) cactus...
i loved them so very much... was so impressed, with seeing them, never forgot them...
2--my mom's little cactus garden, of many kinds, on one side of her house... always wanted one too...have not had a chance... but in south texas we had prickly pear, wild, all over the place!
3--the prickly pear, of south texas... wild! all over... i loved them...
we'd eat them too, when our more "palatble" ones were not producing...
and, we'd eat the "tunas" from the fields of the wild ones... loved them so much... miss them so much... :(
thanks so much for the share...
:)
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Sioux Juan
Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
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Jan 25, 2011 - 03:50am PT
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jan 30, 2011 - 11:26pm PT
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Nice Dr F. and I thought the Huntington had a rad collection of those south African weird plants. A shot from the outdoor garden.^^
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Jan 31, 2011 - 12:31am PT
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Craig, or one of you other cactus people: What do you use as the plural for cactus? Cactuses? Cacti?
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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"Cactus Bloom VII" Oil on Canvas 48"x48"
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Bump. Hey Doc, what species and common name is this one?
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 21, 2018 - 12:57am PT
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L
climber
A place where Blue is the new Black...
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Apr 21, 2018 - 08:46am PT
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mongrel
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Apr 21, 2018 - 09:18am PT
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Elcap, your plant looks like Glandulicactus uncinatus. Used to be in Sclerocactus (one common name for these is fishhook cactus), but other than that, can't help you on common name.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Apr 21, 2018 - 12:07pm PT
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Apr 21, 2018 - 12:15pm PT
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Rcklzrd
Trad climber
Prescott, AZ
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Apr 21, 2018 - 05:32pm PT
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Rcklzrd
Trad climber
Prescott, AZ
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Apr 21, 2018 - 06:14pm PT
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Apr 21, 2018 - 08:54pm PT
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Cholla is like a species from “Alien.” They are "the devil incarnate." Evil.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 22, 2018 - 07:27am PT
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Not sure who this Dr. F fella was, but sure glad he was banned, he posted such trashy cactus, loser...
I heard he got banned for contacting the Admin to try and get a hateful troll, "The Chief" Petty Officer" banned, truly criminal behavior!!
well any hoo
I grow cactus and succulents too,
I don't take as many photos as I used to, it's full time horticulture now
seed to sales, if anyone asked, I would call my specialty horticulture, growing plants
Sclerocactus unicinatus v. wrighti ^
Elcap's plant above is Sclerocactus unicinatus v. unicinatus, shorter spines
Cactus are a family of succulents that only grow in the Americas, South Africa has the greatest speciation of succulents, they are super fun to grow
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Apr 22, 2018 - 07:50am PT
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I don’t get down to Southern California often but when I do the Huntington Cactus Garden is well worth the effort.....you will not be disappointed if you love cactus.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 22, 2018 - 07:53am PT
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The Huntington Gardens has the best public Cactus and Succulent Gardens in the World.
Make sure you go through the Greenhouse area, it usually doesn't open until after 2pm.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Apr 22, 2018 - 09:21am PT
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 22, 2018 - 01:48pm PT
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The most recent poachers have been stealing from coastal northern California. The species on the Channel Islands are similar, but as far as we know so far, there are not wholesale poaching incidents on the islands. By the way there was a Supertopoan interviewed for both the written and video links above (wink, nod). I wish people would stop knocking them off the cliffs and taking Dudleya from the wild.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 22, 2018 - 05:29pm PT
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The species in the article is Dudleya fairnosa
You can take cuttings of the plant w/o ripping out the roots.
they are easy to reroot
Dudleya plants are not that old per se, they die back and new ones grow in their place, from seeds or broken off pieces
It's never cool collecting large quantities of native plants for resale
The Asian's are very hungry for succulents these days, collection of native species should be monitored and infractions should be punished.
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Ney Grant
Trad climber
Pollock Pines
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Apr 22, 2018 - 05:59pm PT
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 22, 2018 - 07:34pm PT
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so obviously there are cartels in the process of mass cloning these plant domestically to undercut the rippers who are digging them up on the American west coast? no
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Apr 22, 2018 - 07:35pm PT
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 22, 2018 - 09:25pm PT
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Some of the ones from this bust were probably at least 50 years old. In some species, it is possible that some old plants are 100 to 150 years or more. I worked on a historical garden (at the Naval Postgraduate School) with some that may have been the originals planted in the 1880s or at least the 1920s and they were not as large as the largest in the wild. In cultivation with good soil and fertilizer, the plants can grow far more quickly than some of the wild plants probably do.
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 22, 2018 - 09:29pm PT
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Dudleyas are very easy from seed. Planted in the fall and not covered with soil, one can get almost all of them to germinate. You don't need many or your pot will get very crowded.
I don't encourage the collecting of plants in the wild, but seed collecting has far less impact on a population.
There is one species I visited in 1984 and then again in about 1997 and about half of the plants in the species were gone. Lucky thing that the survivors grew under agaves or among cacti.
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 22, 2018 - 09:32pm PT
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I have found them knocked off the cliffs by storms, tourists, or climbers and have put them back. They were still there a year later.
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 22, 2018 - 09:37pm PT
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In 1983, there were few of a rare dudleya along a particular road. You could park right there. In 2015, I visited. There was no legal parking within 1/2 mile and there was a fence that was maybe 5.4 or 5.5 to climb over. The plants were recovering.
Three species were down to fewer than 50, thought to be extinct or nearly so because of non-native rabbits or goats. They are slowly recovering now that the rabbits and goats are off the islands.
Fortunately, many of the plants from the last couple of busts were common species.
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 22, 2018 - 09:38pm PT
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P.S. I have some in tissue culture and am happy to share seed.
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 22, 2018 - 10:20pm PT
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Thanks xCon. cheers
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 22, 2018 - 10:44pm PT
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Did someone say Huntington Gardens?
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 23, 2018 - 01:54am PT
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 23, 2018 - 01:57am PT
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A couple feet tall, though from above it might not look like it.
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L
climber
A place where Blue is the new Black...
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Apr 23, 2018 - 12:31pm PT
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Amazing photos everyone!
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Apr 23, 2018 - 02:36pm PT
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From JT yesterday. Craig or anyone else any idea?
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 23, 2018 - 02:51pm PT
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That's a Dudleya saxosa aloides
Common in the Wonderland and Queen Mt.
I have put together a slide show of the Succulents of Joshua Tree for our Cactus Club, so I have accumulated a thorough photo gallery of all the succulents out there
It's apparent that this species has been collected out of all the areas that humans have been impacted. During the Spring, their pink flowers are commonly seen growing in almost in every suitable location in the outback of the Wonderland and Queen Mt., but you step on the trails going to the Astrodome and you won't see a single one.
And a Welcome to Steven McCabe, a renowned expert on Dudleya
I never knew he is a climber
but's it's his name in the article and in many others on Dudleya
I would love a clone of that beautiful hybrid you have developed.
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Apr 23, 2018 - 03:40pm PT
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J-Tree
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 25, 2018 - 02:46pm PT
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Dudleya pachyphytum
from Cedros Island, one of the nicest Dudleyas as a potted plant
Hope to get seeds this year, we have 5 or 6 of them.
They grow well in our Coastal Climate.
Dudleya stolonifera on left, D. lanceolata on right
Dudleya edulis on right
These plants are only about 4 months old!
I grew them in my succulent Vegetable Garden,
I throw in seeds, water every other day and succulents grow like crazy.
More Garden plants
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Apr 25, 2018 - 05:31pm PT
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I was down in J Tree last week and the red barrels on my land are blooming. The Beavertail were just about to bloom.
Desert newbies only have 1 encounter with a cholla then never go anywhere near them after
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Apr 27, 2018 - 07:31am PT
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My two brothers were riding double on a bike down hill in the canyons near the house.
They went head over into a bunch of "jumping cactus". Each ended up with about half dozen in his scalp.
I still feel the pain as my mom pulled them out with pliers.
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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Apr 27, 2018 - 08:09am PT
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 27, 2018 - 08:36am PT
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Winter Color
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 27, 2018 - 09:09am PT
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Apr 27, 2018 - 09:22am PT
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Scole
Trad climber
Zapopan
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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May 12, 2018 - 08:31am PT
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Happy cactus morning!
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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May 30, 2018 - 09:45am PT
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Some spring, haven't seen the Sun in days
total marine layer, or as we say "June Gloom"
but wow, I just found an old stash of photos when I was excited about photography
now it's more of a chore
2011
My photo hits the first row on Google search
Didymaotus lapidiformis
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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May 30, 2018 - 10:01am PT
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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May 30, 2018 - 03:28pm PT
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Jun 13, 2018 - 06:47am PT
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Still pretty harsh.
In California, it's supposed to take a Violent Felony conviction - a "strike" - to trigger deportation.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 27, 2019 - 09:42pm PT
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hey there, say... just a bump...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 27, 2019 - 09:54pm PT
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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May 28, 2019 - 01:24pm PT
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Some are organized gangs, not just taking a few plants, but 10s of thousands of Dudleya plants. So, some rich guy in China is making money ripping off our coast. They are coming to the country, apparently intending to commit crimes. So, it seems like they lie on their tourist visas, steal plants, steal plants from state and national parks, commit fraud, and lie to federal agents. They have no ties to the community. The jail time is suspended if they don’t come back. Later, foreign national(s?) (more a Mom and Pop operation) with ties to the community were fined and jailed for a short time, but not deported. What are the native bees, hummingbirds and other pollinators supposed to do when 100,000s plants disappear over the range of several counties. What about the rabbits, mice, insects and the small birds, raptors, and owls that eat the things that eat or pollinate the Dudleya? And stripping the area increases coastal erosion near coastal roads.
Most of the plants they have been taking will die in the windowsills in China and Korea where the plants are headed.
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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May 28, 2019 - 01:42pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 28, 2019 - 06:53pm PT
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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May 28, 2019 - 07:19pm PT
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^^^ stephen, thanks for speaking up for dudleya. gotta stop! if mister prickly could talk, he'd say "check me out next week" ha!
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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May 29, 2019 - 11:29am PT
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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May 29, 2019 - 11:56am PT
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[photoid=559405]
Thanks Hooblie.
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