Purple Pincushion, Common Ball Cactus, Beehive Cactus (Escobaria vivipara)

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Apr 30, 2007

Purple Pincushion, Common Ball Cactus, Beehive Cactus
Escobaria vivipara

Big Needle Cactus in Arizona, USA, July 1998

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CactusJordi El Cajon, CA Aug 16, 2008

Kennedyh,

This and the other 2 photos you posted as C. macromeris are most likely Cory vivipara.

Jordi

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Aug 21, 2008

Jordi

thank you, I think you are right and I have asked admin to move the images to the Escobaria vivipara page.

I photographed this cactus in Madeira Canyon in southern Arizona in July 1998. I also found another cactus in flower in the same area, which I had identified as Coryphantha vivipara, which I now feel cannot be that species. The spines form a dense network almost completely hiding the surface of the stem segments.

I attach my photo of that cactus, are you able to identify it from my picture,

Kennedy

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CactusJordi El Cajon, CA Aug 22, 2008

Kennedy,
I would say this is also an Escobaria vivipara. Even more typically looking. This one must have grown in full sun and a very dry spot while the others (the former macromeris) seem to live in a shady rather moist place.

Jordi

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Aug 22, 2008

Thanks Jordi, that makes sense. Glad to have them all correctly identified,

Ken

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