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August 27, 2018 by Kurt Buzard Leave a Comment

Succulent and Cactus Gardens of the Relais de la Reine in Madagascar

Madagascar Palm (Pachypodium lamerei) with Octopus Tree (Didierea madagascariensis), Aloe and Christ Thorn. Relais de la Reine Lodge, Madagascar

Madagascar Palm (Pachypodium lamerei) with Octopus Tree (Didierea madagascariensis), Aloe and Christ Thorn. Relais de la Reine Lodge, Madagascar

The garden at Relais de la Reine is concentrated on succulents and cactus and is one of the more remarkable collections I have seen. They have a collection of the Malagasy succulents Didierea and Alluauda from the famous “Spiny Forest”, a beautiful collection of indigenous Aloe and Kalanchoe, a collection of rare and unusual euphorbia from the Americas and Africa and an equally amazing collection of unusual cactus with the very rare Brasiliopuntia cactus. You will be forgiven if all these names just went over your head, this post will focus on pictures of these unusual plants with a minimal description. Even if you don’t know their names, these plants are something you will not want to miss. The Spiny Forest in the south of Madagascar is a world of spiky octopus trees and swollen baobabs, and almost all its species exist only in Madagascar.
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Filed Under: Hotels and Lodges, Madagascar, Plants and Gardens Tagged With: Alluaudia, Aloe, Brasiliopuntia brasiliensis, Cactus, Continental Drift, Convergent Evolution, Crested, Didierea, Dusty Kalanchoe, Echinopsis subdenudata, Euphorbia, Euphorbia milii, Euphorbia stenoclada, Garden, Genetic Malformation, Gondwana, Madagascar, monstrous, Mother of Thousands, Opuntia Cactus, Opuntia erinacea, Opuntia galapageia, Opuntia Monacantha Variegata Monstruosa, Opuntia schickendantzii, Opuntia/Consolea rubescens, Pachypodium, Pangaea, Photos, Pictures, Plate Techtonics, Relais de la Reine, Spiny Forest, Succulents, Walking Kalanchoe

July 1, 2016 by Max Distro LLC Leave a Comment

Big Beautiful Cactus

Big Beautiful Cactus. Ethel M Botanical Garden, Las Vegas

Big Beautiful Cactus. Ethel M Botanical Garden, Las Vegas

Most people who do not live in a desert environment consider cactus to be an unattractive species. Nothing could be farther from the truth, cactus are a beautiful species, similar to euphorbia in Africa. Euphorbia can be found all over the world. The forms range from annual plants laying on the ground, to well developed tall trees. In deserts in Madagascar and southern Africa, convergent evolution has led to cactus-like forms where the plants occupy the same ecological niche as cacti do in deserts of North America and South America. The genus is primarily found in the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and the Americas, but also in temperate zones worldwide. The 1,500 to 1,800 species of cacti mostly fall into one of two groups of “core cacti”: opuntias (subfamily Opuntioideae) and “cactoids” (subfamily Cactoideae). Most members of these two groups are easily recognizable as cacti. They have fleshy succulent stems that are major organs of photosynthesis. They have absent, small, or transient leaves. They have flowers with ovaries that lie below the sepals and petals, often deeply sunken into a fleshy receptacle (the part of the stem from which the flower parts grow). All cacti have areoles highly specialized short shoots with extremely short internodes that produce spines, normal shoots, and flowers. In Las Vegas we have one of the best cactus gardens in the world at the Ethel M Botanic Garden.

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Filed Under: Las Vegas, Plants and Gardens Tagged With: Barrel Cactus, Botanical Gardens, Cacti, Cactus, Cereus, Cholla, Cow’s Tongue Cactus, Ephedra, Ethel M, Las Vegas, Nevada, Peru, Prickly Pear, Saguaro Cactus, Soap Yucca, Yucca

March 13, 2016 by Max Distro LLC 2 Comments

Cactus at the Larco Museum. Peru

Cereus peruvianus. Larco Museum, Lima Peru

Cereus peruvianus. Larco Museum, Lima Peru

At the Larco museum in Peru, they had a collection of the most unusual cacti I have ever seen. Earlier in cactus taxonomy, Cereus was a name that had been applied to nearly all known cactus species that were ribbed, columnar plants. Many of these plants have since been moved out into separate genera. Consequently, the 30 or so plants that remain in the Cereus group are largely plants that have not been moved out of the genus rather than plants that have been included because they fit the description of Cereus. This inclusion-by-lack-of-exclusion makes for a very messy and unsatisfactory grouping. The name Cereus peruvianus has been applied to both C. hildmannianus and C. repandus which are both recognized as legitimate species today. The trouble is, neither of them resemble the many plants that we see labeled as Cereus peruvianus.

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