The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 990 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 17 trips to carry that many people.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 3,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 5 years to get that many views.
Unusual cactus with areoles at tips of leaves
aerole with spines on candlestick cactus
aereoles with many spines on echinocereus
0.5 cm young cactus plant
Gymnocalycium with old flower at the areole
Euphorbia – not a cactus!
Cactaceae is the plant family of cactuses, cacti, or cactus. You can correctly use either of the three plural forms, but please don’t call it captus!
This post is about one of the characteristics that all of the cactaceae possess. The areole. All cacti have them, and no other plant does. It is the area from which its spines radiate and flowers are born.
Many plants may look like cacti because they are fleshy and thorny, but they cannot be in the cactus family without the areole. Other plants, such as the Christmas cactus, do not look very cactus like, but look closely and you can see the bloom emerging from a very reduced areole. Check out the pictures and see if you can spot the areole.
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