Echinocereus

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:08 am

Echinocereus salm-dyckianus

Echinocereus reichenbachii ssp. perbellus

Nikon D200, 60mm micro nikkor

DaveW

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:45 am

Really, really beautiful flowers Dave, and a great job of taking them. What a great color on the first one and the center thing (stigma?) on the second flower is very cool looking. I would love to see your greenhouse, maybe a picture in the "General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements". You Certainly make me drool

with these wonderful pictures..almost makes me want to get rid of all my tropical plants and switch to cacti (I really really have no room for both

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MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:26 pm

Nicely done, Dave!

Echinocereus genus is my favorite among the Cacti.
That orange is wonderful!
Also, you avoid disturbance impact of the pots details to the scenery composition.

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:48 pm

It is not always possible to avoid the pots Nikola. It depends what angle you can get. Some collectors used to do mock habitat shots and plunge the pots in a box filled with gravel and a few rocks but it always looks artificial anyway.

As far as I am concerned they are either taken in habitat or they are cultivated plants, even if botanical species or grown from habitat seed, so there is no point trying to fake it.

DaveW

Bruce Williams · Post by **Bruce Williams** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:39 pm

Two beautiful Echinocereus flowers Dave. Your E. reichenbachii ssp. perbellus has an amazing number of petals, stamens and stigma lobes! I knew and owned this plant as E. perbellus.

Appropriately the word perbellus means "very beautiful".

Both images are beautifully crisp with good dof. Are they both single photos or have you used stacking to extend the dof?

Bruce

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:58 pm

I have enough trouble post processing after coming from slide photography to yet start on stacking Bruce! All my images are single shot ones.

I gather I am allowed to post 3 images per day so here's another one for Nikola as it is his favourite genus.

Echinocereus viridiflorus ssp. davisii The smallest Echinocereus species with bodies not much more than 2cm tall.

DaveW

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:51 pm

All these cacti...I really don't know, so beautiful they are. The second one with the green center is very nice but of course they all are, however it would be my favorite.

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:36 pm

Ken,

As you will notice green stigma lobes are one of the characteristics of Echinocereus, only a couple of species have stigma lobes of a different colour.

DaveW

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:07 am

Thanks Dave!

Those lilliputian (dwarf) species do have an unique charm covered almost completely by blossom like that.

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:32 am

Great pics dave, i reckon mine will be putting buds out soon.

Bruce Williams · Post by **Bruce Williams** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:40 am

Dave - Just had a good session in the greenhouse and took the opportunity to check my cactus name tags (the few that are still legible that is

)and was pleased to see that I still have my E. purbellus. It'll flower for sure (neglect does that too them

) and I'll take a few pics to post for comparison of flower type etc.

Bruce

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:06 am

Mine is a very dark spined form Bruce as you can see. I believe it is under a David Ferguson number. I may have some small Echinocereus seedlings available later because my seed sowings did fairly well a couple of years ago when I concentrated on sowing many different Echinocereus.

DaveW