CAUTION: the sap is very toxic (ditto all parts of the plant except for the ripe fruit, and the seed that we eat), and can cause severe skin burns (it is closely related to Poison-ivy). Be extremely careful with the plants!

ANYBODY any idea what OPUNTIA it is ? pleeeeeeeeeeese icon_scratch Try the key here; it should be one of these: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=123045 Bit annoying it starts with a fruit query, but if you try both leads 2 and 10, and see where you get from there. Tho'...

Would be good to know what type as I would like to try. I have the plan Opuntia ficus-indica which I kept indoors this winter. O. ficus-indica is a tropical species and isn't very hardy. The hardiest is O. fragilis ( map ), followed by O. polyacantha ( map ) and O. humifusa ( map ), though all of t...

Dave Brown wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2018 6:49 am Be careful of buying by height. Diameter of the trunk shows age, rather than length of leaves. My preference would be a short chunky one.

Ditto to this - a tall slender one will be etiolated (grown in low light levels), weak and poor quality.

Excellent, thanks!

Sure is different!

Will the quick reply box be coming back?

Not sure those are juveniles, I'd suspect both adult females, but tricky to tell them part

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"Pakistan, where temperatures will soar into the low fifties"

If it's under a cedar, why not some cedar-related Mediterranean plants? Things like Chamaerops humilis var. argentea?

Adam D wrote:It still feels like late winter here, sigh!

More like November here, with the fog and drizzle

flounder wrote:It's amazing what you can do with seaweed and pine cones these days

Maybe they've got bigger and better pine cones?

Nope, just cold North Sea rain

First day of Bovine Spongiform Time, cold (7°), thick fog all day. Felt like late November. Yukk.

Blairs wrote:Defo pinus, though not Scots pine. I find pine seedlings where birds like to poop on my garden.

Sorry, nope - defo not a Pinus . Abies grandis, 100% certain.

Tmax yesterday and today, 7°C.

Yukk.