Today's post is a study in plant shapes, the paddle and ball shapes of the plants in the Desert Garden at the Huntington in San Marino, California. Photos taken when I visited in December of 2019. We start with the colorful paddles of Kalanchoe luciae...![]()
And move on to lots of opuntia paddles, some on tree sized plants...
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...and others with interesting patterns on them.
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Look at the trunk on that one (the opuntia I mean)!
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Now we turn our attention to the balls, mostly the golden barrel cactus, Echinocactus grusonii, but there are a few others mixed in to keep things interesting.
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For me this is where the serious magic starts to happen. Mix those golden barrels with a powder blue agave and...wow!
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This little cutie is a Gymnocalycium horstii ssp. buenekeri.
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And this one, well there wasn't a label that I could see, but it's pretty well spiked isn't it!?
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