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Can anyone identify this cactus for me? A friend is doing a biology project, and I'm trying to help her identify this cactus. So far, I am not having any luck.

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 Avatar 720 wrote:
Don't quote me on this, but I think it's a cactus.


I hate you. And love you.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568185/6341412.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568185/6341412.page GMT Re:What Is This Cactus? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568185/6341422.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568185/6341422.page GMT Re:What Is This Cactus? ID things without knowledge of the native range. You also don't have anything for scale in the pic, so that makes any ID via photo very difficult too. Finally its hard to tell if the plant is growing oddly because its potted, i.e. is it half dead? Are those two long, flopped over arms growing weird due to light/nutrient/water being different from its native environment?

So, those disclaimers out of the way, this is my guess:

Echinopsis thelegona


http://cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus=Echinopsis&species=thelegona

You should account for the variables I mention at the top of the post (as much as possible), and check out this cool ID guide, which starts here:
http://cactiguide.com/habitsearch/

Hope that helps!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568185/6341477.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568185/6341477.page GMT What Is This Cactus? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568185/6341525.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568185/6341525.page GMT What Is This Cactus?
If so it could be a cactus.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568185/6341610.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568185/6341610.page GMT What Is This Cactus?
Yeah definitely a plant.

If its on a middle aged couples window cill then its a Cactus......or a draft excluder.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568185/6344381.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568185/6344381.page GMT