Hi Boo,
Thanks for the response - my post is titled 'What.... is this?' so I thought I should presume to thank one in advance.
I'd like to try that one, but it would have to be with me up here, and you'd agree that Canada and those islands don't have much in common weather-wise. The only Opuntias I have up here are cold-hardy (O. polyacantha and O. fragilis).
If I tried to grow it in AZ, I think it would die there, too, from the sounds of it (it freezes there sometimes). I'm trying to grow a little piece of O. sulfurea in the ground there, and it's never really caught on.
Anyway, who sells O. echios, O. megasperma or any of the others? I thought no one could (legally) have clones of any of the Galapagos species. I think I know someone in San Diego who has all of them (I think his Brachycereus is grafted, but at least he's got it) but I don't recall ever seeing it for sale.
Speaking of Opuntias, but not the paddle kind, have you grown O. pachypus?
Cheers,
Jeff
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