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Echinocactus grusonii; Biznaga de Zimapan   

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Echinocactus grusonii
Echinocactus grusonii
Biznaga de Zimapan
Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson

ID: 0000 0000 0314 0903 (2014-03-09)

Copyright © 2014 Wynn Anderson

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  • date of photo  Jun 28, 2007
  • this photo depicts a plant that was cultivated or collected in the wild
  • photo location   El Charco de Ingenio Jardin Botanica, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
  • plant's place of origin   Zimapan, (Queretaro, Mexico)
  • family Cactaceae
  • notes   The Golden Barrel is an easily propagated, popular landscape accent plant in temperate climates. This is one of several hundred plants salvaged and replanted in 1991 from the Zimapan hydroelectric dam site on the Queretaro-Hildago border which destroyed most, if not all, of the plants known habitat rendering it all but extinct in the wild.
  • keywords: Charco del Ingenio
  • contributor's ID #  CDI 502
  • photo category: Plant - shrub

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
  • common names   Biznaga de Zimapan, Golden Barrel (photographer)
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