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Lady Finger Cactus
Stanley Jones

Lady Finger Cactus (Echinocereus pentalophus)

Lady Finger Cactus (Echinocereus pentalophus: Cactaceae).
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Habitat
South Texas Plains vegetation area, Lower Rio grande Valley, adjacent to Arroyo Colorado, Tamaulipan scrub (reclaimed land from an old dump site) at 6 m (20 ft) elevation.
Location
Hugh Ramsey Nature Park, Harlingen, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
Date taken
May 2022
Scientific name
Echinocereus pentalophus
Equipment used
Canon
KC Foggin
Supporter
A gorgeous image of this Lady Finger Cactus Stanley!
Is it prevalent in Texas? I'll check back later :)
 
bievreJJ
superb sight of these flowering cacti, Stanley, and an excellent photo, love it, many tfs!!
 
Stanley Jones
Supporter
It ranges from Brownsville west along the Rio Grande to McAllen and sparingly from Brownsville up to Corpus Christi. It used to be fairly common in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (Brownsville to McAllen) but habitat destruction has taken its toll, like it has on so many other species. It still exist on city, state and federal lands that are protected that has thornscrub on it. It surely exists on large ranches that is primarily for cattle grazing. Most of these ranches still have large stands of thornscrub.

Stanley
 
Doc Duck
Laughing at the name. My hands may be dry, but they're not THAT prickly! Nor do I have lovely flowers sprouting from them. I guess that means I'm not a lady 😉
 

Media information

Category
Wild Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Fungi
Added by
Stanley Jones
Date added
View count
208
Comment count
6

Image metadata

Device
Canon Canon EOS R5
Aperture
Æ’/7.1
Focal length
100.0 mm
Exposure time
1/500 second(s)
ISO
6400
Filename
Lady Finger Cactus, Hugh Ramsey Nature Park, Harlingen.jpg
File size
1 MB
Date taken
Sat, 07 May 2022 5:57 PM
Dimensions
1024px x 538px

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