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StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Jun 8, 2016 - 01:58pm PT
Thanks DMT! What are the purple and white flowers? They look wonderful.
Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Jun 8, 2016 - 02:25pm PT
Mesembs from South Africa, related to Ice Plant
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jun 8, 2016 - 02:43pm PT
Dr F, what is that last wierdness?


So, Flower People, after a winter of at least average rain down here in LaLa Land I would
have expected a bumper crop of everything. The flowers have been very happy but it is a
decidedly sub-par year for the giant agaves. I guess they don't like so much rain?
Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Jun 8, 2016 - 03:05pm PT
That last plant is Conophytum burgeri
It's very rare because it's care is so difficult

It's like growing a blob of jello
it doesn't get any bigger than that

I sell seed of them, and grow them from seed.
It takes about 6 years to get that big
clifff

Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
Jun 8, 2016 - 03:44pm PT
"What are the purple and white flowers? "

Five spot (Nemophila maculata)

http://www.google.com/#q=Five+spot+%28Nemophila+maculata%29

There's also a Desert Five Spot, Eremalche rotundifolia

http://www.google.com/#q=Desert+Five+Spot%2C+Eremalche+rotundifolia


Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Jun 8, 2016 - 05:03pm PT
Here's my favorite plant of the week
Trichodiadema fergusonii

So rare in cultivation that the only real photos of the species in Google Images are of my plant years ago
and I have 23 photos in the gallery that are not Trichodiadema fergusonii

Now look at it!
I potted it up into a show pot
We call those Nice Fat Roots

I have several plants and harvest the seeds
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 9, 2016 - 10:57am PT
Oleander, privet, and Tree of Heaven.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jun 9, 2016 - 11:59am PT



thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Jun 9, 2016 - 11:44pm PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2016 - 12:30am PT
Fresh tuna for the sushi fest, Jaybro?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2016 - 06:58am PT
In the Starz TV series, DaVinci's Demons, the concoction given to Leo to facilitate his walk among the dead as he lays dying from snakebite, in the Episode titled "The Rope of the Dead," is made from the San Pedro cactus. Needless to say, this is highly fictionalized.

I have used mushrooms which contain mescaline, or was it psilocybin? No matter, I'm here and others aren't, same as it's ever been. However, I have never been possessed by demons, so my take is limited to "recreational use" experience, not shamanistic ritual.


San Pedro cactus.

Echinopsis pachanoi and related species* is used as a tool to facilitate the shaman’s ‘‘journey’’ in order to diagnose and heal the ‘‘magical’’ illnesses, including ‘‘soul loss’’ and ‘‘sorcery’’ from which patients are believed to suffer. More recently, the use of this cactus by those seeking access to ‘‘other worlds’’ for spiritual enlightenment, or just for recreational ‘‘escape’’ from the stresses of daily living, has been increasingly popular throughout the Andes, as well as in the United States and Western Europe. Legality of the use of this mescaline-bearing plant substance in the United States is questionable, because, unlike peyote, Echinopsis/Trichocereus is not listed as a Schedule I hallucinogen by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/ scheduling.html), even though mescaline, the psychoactive alkaloid responsible for its effects, is specifically named. However, preparing, using, distributing, and selling the plant with intent to ingest is specifically cautioned against by many because of the ambiguity of the law.

Also classified as Trichocereus pachanoi,
the Echinopsis label is more recent, more botanically correct, and much less widely used.

http://www.ayahuascacommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/shamanism-and-san-pedro-through-time.pdf

edit: These are night bloomers, I believe.
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Jun 10, 2016 - 08:18am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 11, 2016 - 08:33am PT
Leaving the VA yesterday on my bike, I pedaled into the old hood.
This is north of Bear Creek in the more elite section of town, where the newer homes are built on wheat/rye land formerly owned by Huffman Land and Cattle, then by the Reinero clan, who raised some cotton and tomatoes and grazed some cattle.There is one developer who had a fixation on Yosemite place names.

Royal Arch Ct. is one such. Eagle Peak is another. Royal Arches Street, too. I think the same builders developed another hood to the west. I lived on Denver Way, which was an extension of Denver Avenue in the late eighties.

Plenty to see. This will take a few posts.
clifff

Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
Jun 11, 2016 - 09:17am PT
Lily of the Nile - Agapanthus in the Amaryllis family

http://www.google.com/#q=agapanthus
EdBannister

Mountain climber
13,000 feet
Jun 12, 2016 - 03:32pm PT
cyndiebransford

climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Jun 12, 2016 - 07:59pm PT
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Jun 14, 2016 - 08:01am PT
Last weekend along the PCT.












Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Jun 14, 2016 - 05:36pm PT
Cactus have great flowers
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2016 - 05:45pm PT
Cacti from Live Trends.Let me say how fine your shots are, CF...you prickly old buggerer. :0)
You are really a softie, dude.

Edge

Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
Jun 14, 2016 - 07:55pm PT
Around my yard today.




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