What is it?
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What is it?
??? Wanna guess? It's pretty big, pretty old (couple hundred years?), and it looks like some big old rocks - at least what I'm letting you see of it here. There's some important history where it is as well.
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Re: What is it?
A good guess, and it certainly looks oak-ish. The next clue is that it does belong in the Cactus forum.
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Re: What is it?
It's a cropped photo of one of the remaining oldest parts of a large clumping Opuntia.
Here Where this was made According to info found regarding this particular mission, the Opuntia there in the courtyard in "mission times", served as a living fence and a source for food. This remaining section is up against the back wall of the courtyard, an impressive massive clump apparently preserved for ages. http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species ... ecnum=5938" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
What is very interesting, is that if one also looks at a map of the placement of the California Missions...
http://californiamissionsfoundation.org ... -missions/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
there's a clear correlation between the naturalized distribution of this plant in California, and the location of the missions. I would venture to say that it's not accidental or coincidental.
Here Where this was made According to info found regarding this particular mission, the Opuntia there in the courtyard in "mission times", served as a living fence and a source for food. This remaining section is up against the back wall of the courtyard, an impressive massive clump apparently preserved for ages. http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species ... ecnum=5938" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
What is very interesting, is that if one also looks at a map of the placement of the California Missions...
http://californiamissionsfoundation.org ... -missions/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
there's a clear correlation between the naturalized distribution of this plant in California, and the location of the missions. I would venture to say that it's not accidental or coincidental.