Huarazensis × Scop

Photographs

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

• Enlarge A long slender rooted plant laid down the middle of the whitewashed board out on a dry lawn, the root ball and a clod of soil hanging past the bottom edge and short amber spines running evenly the whole way up. — Too long for the board — the tip runs up over the top frame.

  Too long for the board — the tip runs up over the top frame.

• Enlarge A tall cactus laid out on a whitewashed plank panel in a bare wood frame, the frame studded with fake sunflowers and small red-and-white toadstools, a tape measure running down inside the left rail, and its soil-caked root ball spilling past the bottom rail onto the lawn. — A wooden ruler lies in the grass off to the left, and the tape measure turns a corner to run across the top of the frame as well.

  A wooden ruler lies in the grass off to the left, and the tape measure turns a corner to run across the top of the frame as well.

• Enlarge A tall column steadied upright against a redwood fence by gloved hands, the cut base callused pale gold where it meets bare soil, dry lawn and a boulder alongside.
• Enlarge One rib filling the frame, close enough to count the areoles, a row of round white pads down its crest with a starburst of short tan spines at each and one longer dark needle pointing down, held between two gloved fingers.