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title: "The red spines protruding over the rim like fingernails kill me. I…"
description: "The red spines protruding over the rim like fingernails kill me. I have Halloween on the brain, and this scene gives me “skeleton’s hand appears, jump scare,…"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/vOLjreBcQ-OpqrHIhVSc4w/65301a63814d43afeb74a5fe"
community: "The Cactus & Succulent Circle"
author: "Dave_opuntiaface"
published: "2023-10-18T17:48:19.242Z"
language: "en"
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# The red spines protruding over the rim like fingernails kill me. I…

_Posted by Dave\_opuntiaface on 2023-10-18_

The red spines protruding over the rim like fingernails kill me. I have Halloween on the brain, and this scene gives me “skeleton’s hand appears, jump scare, more fingers reach out, skeleton crawls out of grave” vibes.

Dusty has lived in a sunny window since day one. Flowers started around day three. It’s such a sweet plant I mistook for Copiapoa (insert vague species name here). It took a lot of digging (no pun) to identify. As I was doing so - and every time I dive into identification - all I could think was “evolution is nuts” when imagining how the few things separating the species is driven by which crappy environment a bat or the wind etc. drops their seeds. Not a deep thought, just another “wow” over succulents.

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