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Sep 11, 2016 9:41 AM CST
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Name: Agavegirl1
South Sonoran Desert (Zone 9b)
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Does anyone have a positive I.D. on this plant? It is my neighbor's.
She says it is approximately 15-20 years old and was about 1/3rd the size when it was planted but she can't remember. Spits out tons of fruit and seed pods. Flowers very early spring through mid summer.
Thanks

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Sep 11, 2016 10:23 AM CST
Georgia (Zone 8a)
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I am taking a gander, but I want to say a species of Ferocactus, although I am not familiar enough with the genus to know which one.
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Sep 11, 2016 2:25 PM CST
Name: Daisy I
Reno, Nv (Zone 6b)
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It is a Ferocactus - those flat bent spines are the clue. Beautiful flowers.
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Sep 11, 2016 6:34 PM CST
Name: Thijs van Soest
Tempe, AZ (Zone 9b)
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I think Ferocactus wislizeni, but F. peninsulae is a possibility, just hard to know if the latter would have been available in the trade here 20 years ago, since they are not really that common these days to begin with, so mostly likely F. wislizeni or a subsp. there-of.
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Sep 11, 2016 10:50 PM CST
Name: Daisy I
Reno, Nv (Zone 6b)
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Ferocactus wislizeni was my thought too.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost

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