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Roberto

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  1. "END OF DAY" I associate it more than anything else with the cloudy ones instead of onionskin, made with last pieces of the barrel or pieces of glass precisely at the end of the day, although in some books they attribute this definition to both

  2. Good Tommy specimens.

    For the moment I do not own those with wool "old man's head"..... in Italian ( Cephalocereus senilis) but I will buy them.

    I see that you have some variegated, (yellow, since they are free of chlorophyll) rather delicate to grow, especially frank, usually they sell them grafted.

    I have one similar to your first, I think it is from the family "Echinocactus" long plug, while mine has white thorns

    Correct, yours must be a sferocactus with those pinkish spines, but always long-plug

     

     

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  3. Yes, there are many cacti that you can safely touch even without gloves since, either they are without thorns (not all cacti have them) or they are small and curved, therefore harmless, or they can have large and pointed thorns but if touched gently they do not cause any damage.

    Sometimes, I like to touch their thorns with my whole hand (gently, of course) to feel their protection.

    The only plants that I never touch are the prickly pear, since (as I mentioned in the thread above) they have very small and tiny transparent thorns called "glochids" that if they come into contact with the skin they can hardly be removed, even with tweezers!   In fact, I don't grow prickly pear very much, precisely for this reason.

    Anyway, for all the other cacti there is absolutely no problem, since I keep pointed tweezers (needle, professional steel) so that if they accidentally get into the skin of my hand, I can easily remove them using a glasses lens,.... it's all about being prepared.

     

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