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Monday, June 8, 2009

Albino Euphorbia for Cactus Monday

This is a new cactus that my daughter gave us for our 40th anniversary this week. This is a Euphorbia Lactea Crest grafted. Its an albino cactus that is grafted to another that is green in order for it to live. The albino cactus can not manufacture chlorophyll for its own food so it's grafted to another cactus to generate the chlorophyll. Pretty interesting! I'm anxious to see how it grows and changes.
It is Cactus Monday at Teri's Painted Daisies. Check out the artist renderings of cactus as well as other plants there.

8 comments:

Lisa at Greenbow said...

Happy Anniversary! What a beautiful cactus. It looks as though it has its wedding dress on. Happy Cactus Monday too.

Diane AZ said...

Your Albino Euphorbia is beautiful, I've never seen anything like it. Wow, 40 years, Happy Anniversay!

marianne said...

Happy anniversary!
What a cute gift.

Happy cactus Monday!

Margaret Ann said...

Thisis amazing...very frilly and girly!!! :) HCM fellow cacuteer! :)

How funny...my word verification for today was "teris"...or Teri's...what a Cactus Monday phenomenon! :) LOL :)

CiNdEe's GaRdEn said...

That is really cool!!! There are so many interesting cactus!
Happy Cactus Monday!!!!
Happy Anniversery too!!!!

Julie said...

How cool! I have a crested Lactea, but it is not albino!!! Can this go in very much sun? It is a real beauty!!!

Happy anniversary!!!

Happy late Ccatus Monday!

Tootsie said...

I stink at succulents!! yours looks great!

Rhondi said...

Hi Pammiejo
What an amazing cactus! I have a tracker on my blog too but I wonder if all the "hits" it shows actually read my blog. That's what I was wondering about.
((hugs)) Rhondi