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#bloomscrolling

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@plants #SucculentSunday
A little cheer for your day 🙂
I had a feeling the other day that I had edited some pics to post then didn't have time/oomph, but couldn't remember what they were, nor where! Just thought about this #cactus that flowered and when I looked for the pics-- all ready to go including alt! Gymnocactus ysabelae (or moved into Turbinicarpus as species or subspecies) #houseplants #IndoorGardening #BloomScrolling #WindowsillGardening #WinterBright #Alberta #Canada

Looking through the window from outside at the plant, the flower is now fully open, petals slightly reflexed and showing a faint blush of pink as well as the stripes on the back showing through. The light seems muted and a bit moody. In the background we can see, blurred, part of a wooly whitish cactus to the left, and behind long golden spines of another. A white blob over that one, may be one of the mysterious other dimensional orbs that people see!(or some debris on the window glass...) A partial view of a small cactus 4-5inches/8-11cm tall, somewhere between ball and barrel shape. It is densely covered with spines, many fine gold, reddish tipped which radiate from the aereoles (points where spines originate, each on a small tubercle) upward at first near the new growth at the top of the plant, becoming straight then flat on older part. From the centre of each aereole a single thicker dark spine curves up towrd the centre of the plant. Clumps of fine white wool also grow from each areole, so we only see hints of the green body where the angle is right to see the tubercle bases.
Looking down on the entire plant, flower nearly fully open looking nearly flat from above but not reflexed as it would a bit later in the afternoon. The sun is hitting the plant, coming from behind. It looks chonky and a bit like a little hedge hog and we can see- blurred- the gravel that covers its soil, as well as the rim of the plastic pot, painted sandy grey. A partial view of a small cactus 4-5inches/8-11cm tall, somewhere between ball and barrel shape. It is densely covered with spines, many fine gold, reddish tipped which radiate from the aereoles (points where spines originate, each on a small tubercle) upward at first near the new growth at the top of the plant, becoming straight then flat on older part. From the centre of each aereole a single thicker dark spine curves up towrd the centre of the plant. Clumps of fine white wool also grow from each areole, so we only see hints of the green body where the angle is right to see the tubercle bases.
The flower is just opening, rising straight up and the whitish petals barely beginning to separate at the top.We can see a pink stripe on the back of a petal and greey brown on the outside of smaller ones(sepals?). It is surrounded by some extra wool and a few small dark dried bits from previous flowers (last season).Background is blurred mottled grungy window. A partial view of a small cactus 4-5inches/8-11cm tall, somewhere between ball and barrel shape. It is densely covered with spines, many fine gold, reddish tipped which radiate from the aereoles (points where spines originate, each on a small tubercle) upward at first near the new growth at the top of the plant, becoming straight then flat on older part. From the centre of each aereole a single thicker dark spine curves up towrad the centre of the plant. Clumps of fine white wool also grow from each areole, so we only see hints of the green body where the angle is right to see the tubercle bases.
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