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Wild cacti in their youth Several of these are seedlings around 2 or 3 years of age and the others can provide some clues as where they have been hiding for their first tender years. Part 2: Tamaulipan Thornscrub Ariocarpus fissuratus The first image is of seedlings growing in a greenhouse at SRU. The next two images are of a plant in Brewster County and the lower two are in Terrell County.
Coryphantha dasyacantha Presidio Co
For a better sense of scale, notice that this is growing with a Prosopis. Coryphantha echinus Terrell Co
The young plants on the right and almost hidden in the upper left above are devoid of central spines.
Coryphantha ramillosa Terrell Co
Coryphantha sneedii var. albicolumnaria Brewster Co
Coryphantha tuberculosa Terrell Co
Cylindropuntia imbricata Hudspeth Co
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis Terrell Co.  Echinocactus horizonthalonius Terrell Co
Hudspeth Co
Echinocactus texensis Terrell Co
Echinocereus coccineus Terrell Co  Echinocereus dasyacanthus Hudspeth Co
Terrell County  Echinocereus enneacanthus Terrell Co.  Echinocereus stramineus Brewster Co
Hudspeth Co
Terrell County  Epithelantha bokei Brewster Co
Grusonia schottii Terrell Co
Lophophora williamsii echinata Terrell County
The rock protecting the seedling above was carefully replaced following its examination. Mammillaria
heyderi
Terrell Co
Cavity in the lower right-hand image above once housed an Ariocarpus fissuratus until it died following extreme cold and drought. Young Mammillaria lasiacantha and Mammillaria heyderi Terrell Co
About to flower in Brewster Co
Mammillaria pottsii Brewster Co
Neolloydia conoidea Brewster Co
Sclerocactus uncinatus Terrell Co.  Not yet identified. maybe young uncinatus? Terrell Co.   Unidentified but dead. Probably Neolloydia? Brewster Co.
This (death) is what happens to MOST seedlings. Part 2: Youth in the Tamaulipan Thornscrub
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