Chalaensis

Photographs

My own pictures of this plant, taken in the yard.

• Enlarge A work glove holds a thick blue-green cutting whose broad flat ribs are cut apart by deep V notches, the spines gray-white low down and red-brown near the top, over a concrete walkway with bark mulch and a yellow equipment case behind. — The notches are deep enough to put a shadow between every rib. · May 2026

  The notches are deep enough to put a shadow between every rib. · May 2026

• Enlarge A Chalaensis cutting held in a gloved hand over the bark bed in the sun, a yellow case with a solar panel on top blurred behind it; stiff spines stand well off the rib edges the whole length of the piece. — Red-brown spines at the growing tip, gray ones further down. · May 2026

  Red-brown spines at the growing tip, gray ones further down. · May 2026

• Enlarge A dark green cutting held upright in a work glove, its ribs narrow and its white areoles each throwing out six or eight thin needle spines, red at the base and darkening to near-black down their length; a boulder and a mulched bed sit out of focus behind. — May 2026

  May 2026

• Enlarge Two cut segments seen square from above on the whitewashed measuring board, the short fat one at the left almost free of spines and the long one at the right thick with brown spines, with the tape measure reading along the bottom edge of the board. — May 2026

  May 2026