Psycho0 × Eileen

Photographs

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

• Enlarge A rooted plant laid on the measuring board out on the lawn, one tall spiny stem with two shorter ones at its foot and a wide fan of dirt-caked roots spread below, with a wooden yardstick and a little gray alien figurine sitting on the grass alongside.
• Enlarge A young Psycho0 × Eileen just out of the ground, steadied in a gloved hand by the fence, one round pup at its base, marker writing across the lower stem and pale roots still trailing soil below.
• Enlarge A rooted cactus laid on a white board in the grass with printed measuring tapes down its left edge and across the top, one pale green column standing up with a lumpy folded growth against its left side and a round knob on its right, dark handwriting inked down the stem, and a… — The board's wood frame is studded with red toy mushrooms and fabric sunflowers, a brown clay alien figure holding a smaller creature sits in the grass off the upper left corner, and a wooden ruler lies alongside.

  The board's wood frame is studded with red toy mushrooms and fabric sunflowers, a brown clay alien figure holding a smaller creature sits in the grass off the upper left corner, and a wooden ruler lies alongside.

• Enlarge A slender yellow-green cactus held upright with its roots out of the ground, a clod of dirt at its base and pale roots splayed across the grass below, a wide flat offset at the base on the right and smaller knobby ones on the left, black marker handwriting down the stem, and a… — A flat black metal Bigfoot silhouette sits on the low wood rail at the left with its legs hanging down, and a gray concrete block leans against the fence behind.

  A flat black metal Bigfoot silhouette sits on the low wood rail at the left with its legs hanging down, and a gray concrete block leans against the fence behind.