
10/16/2020
Amazing persian carpet flower!!! 😲😍😍
Historic botanical garden in south Palm Springs established in 1938. Clark Moorten, Proprietor
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Amazing persian carpet flower!!! 😲😍😍
Cactus at the Larco Museum , Peru
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A most amazing herbarium sheet that shows how they preserve cholla cactus in these horticultural archives. Pressing succulents, especially spiny cactus like they do regular plants is difficult if not impossible. Yet here is the presentation of a plant and all its parts in cross sections. This takes a wooden plant press devoted exclusively to spine and glochid plants or suffer the consequences.
1901 Palm Canyon after Indian burning. Demonstrates how they managed unwanted competition for food bearing plants. Burning also created bumper crops of seed in the following years.
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Evening bees mobbing Tricocereus spachianus (Torch Cactus) last evening just before sundown. I believe they gather like this to literally pull the bud tip open so they can climb in and feed while it's warm since this morning was in the 40s today. Weird for our desert, should be warm night every night. Apparently the bees knew it would be too cold in the AM, their usual feeding time when flowers are open.
Amazing Succulents
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From my Morongo Valley home site: I love when the phacelias mature because the spirals become larger and the plant parts change color for this visual feast of desert botany. They are like this all over now as the heat is here to force them to fruition.
Milton Sessions was a contemporary of Patricia Moorten who likely was well aware of the desert garden at Balboa Park while planning Moorten Botanical Garden.
Watch for them along roadsides now!
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Ferocactus cylindraeus
Compass Barrel
This very old specimen here in Morongo Valley escaped all the fires that ringed this community. This cactus is so named for its propensity to lean to the south, which provided desert reckoning just as moss on the north sides of trees do the same in other climates. They are always the first cactus to bloom, just starting to show and a few are opening at 2000'.
Desert Gold Poppy Eschscholzia glyptosperma
This is a smaller species of California poppy that prefers the tops of hills and near vertical slopes to form its colonies. High above Little Morongo Canyon they are showing patches now that can be seen from long distances. It's rare to find them like this but after burning off over a decade ago they are back with a vengeance!
Photographers create page dedicated to Highway 62 wildflowers for those who can't see them because of COVID-19
A Morongo Valley botany writer has created a page for those missing out on the high desert wildflower season because of COVID-19.
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Tephrocactus 🌵😍😍😍😍
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Cactus Garden 🌵
The British Cactus & Succulent Society
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This is the N°1 concern for the conservation of Namaqualand.
Increased temperatures and disturbed rainfall, wind and fog regimes, is what scientists predict for Namaqualand (to get a good insight, read the book "Fynbos" (2015) by Allsopp, Colville and Verboom, or type "South Africa climate change" in https://scholar.google.fr/).
The reason why Namaqualand is so rich with small succulents and geophytes (it is the richest semi-arid land on earth) is because 1/the rainfall is predictable (there are few drought years, when rainfall
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Murciélagos, los polinizadores que también están en riego y casi nadie sabe
Los polinizadores son animales de gran importancia para la supervivencia humana y los murciélagos son uno de ellos, pero casi nadie sabe que están en peligro.
Sleeping beauties (Summertime in Namaqualand)
Boophane haemanthoides, the largest I've found !
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