365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Vermilion Zygo
Day 57: I always seem to neglect the common colors of Zygocactus in my collection in favor of the more showy and unusual varieties, but they are equally rewarding and a welcome sight in the grey months of November and December. This is one I describe as "vermilion," as opposed to the other mundane "cerise" species on the shelf (not currently fully open). Some varieties are natural mutations; others have been carefully engineered genetically, however, all have the same hot-pink stigma and a roughly-drawn pencil-line of the same color marks the white interior of the flower as if to remind us that the hereditary stock of all Christmas cacti was indeed a deep, rich pink (a color I can forgive in Nature, but nowhere else).
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