Nichol's turks head cactus in the Sonoran desert, is this a valid taxon?

In todays episode I traverse pima county Arizona in search of Echinocactus horizonthalonius var. nicholii with a special guest, my buddy Elijah (@sunrise_cactus) as well as do some comparison with the Mexican populations of the genus I've entered whilst traveling though Coahuila, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas Mexico. I really find myself not agreeing with so much splitting that goes on in taxonomy and as a nascent hobby botanist I am always curious and trying to gain understanding. I thought it was so cool to see these echinocactus that grow side by side with Lophophora in mexico growing with Ferocactus cylindraceus here in the American southwest. I love the Sonoran desert.
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  • @sunrisecactus
    @sunrisecactus Жыл бұрын

    Good times my bro! Thank you for letting me be on the channel💯🤙

  • @CactusQuest

    @CactusQuest

    Жыл бұрын

    My pleasure dude

  • @terminalspines
    @terminalspines Жыл бұрын

    "I am your screeching host" 😂 Hope you're feeling better now buddy

  • @HOODBOSS5000
    @HOODBOSS5000 Жыл бұрын

    Boi is strapped.

  • @CactusQuest

    @CactusQuest

    Жыл бұрын

    good eye

  • @sunrisecactus

    @sunrisecactus

    Жыл бұрын

    😭😂😂😂

  • @andyroo3022
    @andyroo3022 Жыл бұрын

    Very cool watching these plants in their environment. It makes me appreciate the cacti in my collection, home in Australia so much more. You guys are very fortunate to track around searching out these plants. Amazing plants.

  • @titterovalleroni7614
    @titterovalleroni7614 Жыл бұрын

    in Italy there is an old saying “the sun kisses the beautiful” …. and indeed these sun-kissed desert plants are beautifully gorgeous. Thanks for these pictures and greetings from Tuscany

  • @taylormacdonald2792
    @taylormacdonald2792 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much that crest is incredible

  • @CactusQuest

    @CactusQuest

    Жыл бұрын

    Your welcome. Yeah that was pretty epic

  • @doyouzgot2knw
    @doyouzgot2knw Жыл бұрын

    Love your videos !! They’re the best!!

  • @richardtyree9384
    @richardtyree9384 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Cactus Quest...

  • @BelgianSpeedcuber
    @BelgianSpeedcuber Жыл бұрын

    Epic video!! Thx for sharing 🤘🤘🔥💚🌵

  • @juanramos.jr.7948
    @juanramos.jr.7948 Жыл бұрын

    Great place for exploration!! Keep doing what you do

  • @robinmarks5638
    @robinmarks5638 Жыл бұрын

    Love this! I hope you gave that crested one just a little drink out of your water bottle!

  • @CactusQuest

    @CactusQuest

    Жыл бұрын

    We ran out ourselves 😂🤣

  • @Matraka2000
    @Matraka2000 Жыл бұрын

    Nice video. I have one in my collection but they are painfully slow to grow. But they are nice.

  • @HOODBOSS5000
    @HOODBOSS5000 Жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @debeekyamko9879
    @debeekyamko9879 Жыл бұрын

    8:15 oohh woow! Crested...😲😯😮

  • @marcialynn3469
    @marcialynn3469 Жыл бұрын

    Hi from Baja San Felipe, where I grow collected cacti, as well as veggies, and host couch surfers.

  • @aimilkalampogias4747
    @aimilkalampogias4747 Жыл бұрын

    You had me at some point! I thought it was Hunter. Good job at the narrative J Santore. @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesn't 😂😂😂

  • @juliocampos6607
    @juliocampos6607 Жыл бұрын

    Where's Sade? 😂 🎶

  • @luciaamoavidacomplantas7262
    @luciaamoavidacomplantas7262 Жыл бұрын

    adoro os cactos são plantas do sertão , resistência ao Sol , torrões

  • @richardlynch1094
    @richardlynch1094 Жыл бұрын

    Nature geeks are the best! Cactus on!

  • @Plantsandtoyhorses
    @Plantsandtoyhorses Жыл бұрын

    I see from some of your previous videos that you make your own pots. Do you use a wheel or hand-build such as through coil? At first I thought to buy some nice pots for staging two of my cacti, but then I thought "why don't I just make it myself?" I'm thinking to try my hand at making the pots but it's going to be a learning curve. To get your crackle texture pots, you paint the glaze on to unfired clay right? I would think so because after bisque firing the clay is no longer malleable. Of course I am no where near using a propane torch yet! ^^

  • @friciifred7481
    @friciifred7481 Жыл бұрын

    Not all limestone forms in the sea. The only way to know forsure is if you can see indicator fossils, or if you mapped the overlying and underlying units and the sequence is indicative of an ancient sea. also the limestones usually don’t form at the “bottom” of the sea, the bottom of the sea is where you’ll mostly get your fine grained deposits such as shale, mudstones, etc.

  • @CactusQuest

    @CactusQuest

    Жыл бұрын

    I need to do a deep dive into it. I find fossils sometimes more so in some areas than others.

  • @friciifred7481

    @friciifred7481

    Жыл бұрын

    it’s hard to recommend where to start, sedimentation and stratigraphy is usually the last upper level class someone takes for a BS in geology. which is were geologists learn the most about limestones. I would say reading a book on geomorphology and surface process would really help with learning about sed strat with respect to limestones. sorry not trying to be a dick 😅, these things just get me going, as a geologist. limestones are pretty complex things and there are people who dedicate their lives to studying limestones.

  • @HelmutKopp
    @HelmutKopp Жыл бұрын

    Tnx for video, i am watching your very interessting informations,,, still its rainig and cold in southern germany,,, no area for this little guys 😤😭

  • @tombirt5989
    @tombirt5989 Жыл бұрын

    I've seen these growing in Pima Co. near the Waterman Mts, and by the Silverbell mine, but I haven't seen an area where they grow this dense. Were you in Pinal or Pima Co.? If it was in Pima Co., was it near the areas I mentioned?

  • @CactusQuest

    @CactusQuest

    Жыл бұрын

    Pima. North of there.

  • @maryantoinettebarachina6554
    @maryantoinettebarachina6554 Жыл бұрын

    I love that place there are plenty of rare cactus that is expensive in other part of the world like my country Philippines i envy those people who can see it or take for free, in my mind i just imagine that i was there taking some of my favorite variety.

  • @jaspershepherdsmith9047

    @jaspershepherdsmith9047

    11 ай бұрын

    You should definitely not take any plants out of their environments. Anyone who loves and appreciates plants would leave them as they are.

  • @jordanjay1479
    @jordanjay1479 Жыл бұрын

    Same order as beets. Caryophyllales.

  • @Atacanfarms
    @Atacanfarms Жыл бұрын

    Gang

  • @basiliuspetrakis896
    @basiliuspetrakis896 Жыл бұрын

    wearing jordan 4 retro in the desert😂 this man aint some poor hippie

  • @zcoanmcoan1534
    @zcoanmcoan1534 Жыл бұрын

    Pls post the c&j and Steven hammer 🤭

  • @CactusQuest

    @CactusQuest

    Жыл бұрын

    its coming its coming wrapping it up today hopefully. it'll go up this weekend.

  • @sunshinevalley0
    @sunshinevalley0 Жыл бұрын

    First ?

  • @jayoloughlin7393
    @jayoloughlin7393 Жыл бұрын

    Cactus aren’t in the same family as beets??

  • @friciifred7481

    @friciifred7481

    Жыл бұрын

    he just has to say betalain pigments in every video, otherwise it’s not a cactus quest video. same with limestone.

  • @droogsurgeon1440
    @droogsurgeon1440 Жыл бұрын

    Get well brother. Did you get drunk and join a death metal band and throw out your voice? Idk! Cactus ON!!!

  • @dekillord8159
    @dekillord8159 Жыл бұрын

    You were in my home town and didn't hit me up!? 😭I'm hurt

  • @doyouzgot2knw
    @doyouzgot2knw Жыл бұрын

    Love your videos !! They’re the best!!

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