Total cool, loved every pic. 8)

The one id of the succulent in the rocks dudleya sp.

Good luck on the hybrids with the O.chlorotica pollen, by the way I got two seeds to sprout.

I have a hardy, if not the most hardy O. basilaris a guy can find. If you nwould like seed just let me know. PS they might come out as hybrids because of the other cactus in my yard. 😕

I almost forgot, your lizard is Prynosoma platyrhinos, but could be a hybrid with coast horned lizard. Nice find. 😀

Amazing locale and species.
Aaron must be drooling...

Nice to see young Washies ... area seems to have a mid-age Washy deficit?

Is that the area where the Forest Service last year burned a lot of large Washies to protect ONE little fish?
Some trunks look charred, leading me to think that's the same area.

Good luck with the pollen.

Looking forward to more pics, thanks for these Paul.
Barb

Amazing locale and species.
Aaron must be drooling...

Nice to see young Washies ... area seems to have a mid-age Washy deficit?

Is that the area where the Forest Service last year burned a lot of large Washies to protect ONE little fish?
Some trunks look charred, leading me to think that's the same area.

Good luck with the pollen.

Looking forward to more pics, thanks for these Paul.
Barb

I miss the south west so much and no trip this year or the next? Aaron is drooling. 😛

I think washies when they are seedlings get eaten so fast, same with most other desert plants, yuccas etc...

The place they are removing all the desert palms to save the fish is in southern Nevada. 😉 In California I think they are planting desert palms to shade the water for protection of the fish. 😆

Barb- the palms they burned are, I believe, the Moapa palms. I've not seen those since 2007, but even then they were removing trees when I was there. It's a bit of a gamble, since those Moapa palms are (probably) the most northerly Washingtonias in existence, BUT they are growing on a spring that is the only habitat for the Moapa Dace... I guess the fact that there are other stands of palms, but not any other habitats for the fish, the fish won...

Aaron- Thanks for the succulent I.D. I assumed it was related to Dudleya, but this one looked a lot different from those I've seen. If you get more chlorotica seed I'd love to try some. I now have a bunch of giberralic acid that should help the stubborn germination! Would love some basilaris seeds too.

I'm also hoping to make some Cylindropuntia hybrids. I got pollen from C. bigelovii and C. echinocarpa to try. And some Yucca rostrata pollen which i hope to put on whatever blooms (perhaps Y. glauca this year?)... I was really hoping for some Y. brevifolia pollen but I was a month late.

great plants Paul! Looks like your trip was AWESOME. That Oak in the desert is too cool. Love the coyote photo!

Wow, great pics! Maybe the oak is a Canyon Live Oak.

great plants Paul! Looks like your trip was AWESOME. That Oak in the desert is too cool. Love the coyote photo!

I belive I have that same oak in my yard. I got it last year, but here the leaves die in the winter. 😡

Gorgeous place Paul! Lucky you get to travel...

Nice pics Paul

I wonder if those aren't Filibusta's

Jim- The large ones at the Oasis are in the middle of the desert. It's unlikely that they have any robusta genes in them. Ditto for the little ones in the creek bed. I don't think the pictures do justice to how fat the trunks nor how massive the crowns (interesting thing that I noticed is that filifera crown completely dwarf robusta crowns; I did not realize that the difference was so large!)

Here is another shot of wild filifera's, these are the ones at Moapa, Nevada... Too bad the seed never germinated:(
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A few more desert shots:

A large blooming B. armata. This guy was planted as a 1 gallon plant in 1950:
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Not sure if you can see it, but there is a hummingbird feeding on the Opuntia flowers:
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Opuntia macrocentra (aka violacea). Mine died after 2 winters, never knew they got this big!
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Another lizard:
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Blooming Yucca rostrata (got some pollen) with hesperaloe and Carnegia:
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Desert willow:
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8500' up in the San Jacinto Mountains...
Manzanita:
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Another evergreen oak. This one had a little bit of leaf tip damage, presumably from the cold that high up!
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Another lizard. Trying to get warm in the 12C (54f) weather (It was 100f in Palm Springs). Must be a tough life!
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Thanks!

lizards, top looks a granite spiny, and the bottom looks like a sage-brush lizard. I could be wrong.

Paul...what palm do you like the most- W.robusta or W. filifera?