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Golden Barrel


Golden Barrel
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Copyright: Janice Dunn (Janice) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3398 W: 144 N: 5764] (17088)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-06-02
Categories: Cacti
Camera: Canon EOS 30d, Canon 70-300mm DO IS USM
Exposure: f/7.1, 1/500 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-06-10 0:51
Viewed: 431
Points: 24
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Golden Barrel
Scientific Name: Echinocactus grusonii Hildmann
Family: Cactaceae

The Golden Barrel is is one of the most popular of all cactis, mainly for its golden spines that keep looking attractive after several years. It is much admired for its large rotund form, noticeably decorated with neat rows of clustered golden spines.

The Golden Barrel has 1.5 to 2 inches (4-5 cm) golden yellow flowers from end of September to end of October in the Southern Hemisphere. The flowers are produced only on mature specimens receiving enough full sun. The flowers are not very visible being small in relation with the size of the barrel, and lost into the creamy colored wool at the top of the globe. They are produced a few at a time over a long period during the growing season in the warm months of the year.

The Golden Barrel is much admired for its large rotund form, dramatically adorned with neat rows of clustered golden spines.

The flowers are also golden yellow in color, emerging from the large patch of wool at the center of the plant.

Large plants attain a size of over 2 feet across, and may remain single or produce plantlets at the side to form a clump. They come from Queretaro State in Mexico, but have become very scarce in the wild due to inundation of much of their natural habitat from construction of a major dam in Mexico, and this plant, along with other cacti, remain attractive targets for wild plant poachers.

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This is one of the plants I saw at the Summer and Winter Hothouses at Auckland’s Domain.
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Good pattern/abstract image. Sharp, excellent composition and good colour saturation. Well seen and well captured.
Cheers
Elizabeth

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  • gannu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 818 W: 4 N: 2026] (9534)
  • [2008-06-10 2:50]

Hello Janice, Nice design by nature and one of a good shot. Just simply amazing nature and good composition. Ganesh

Hello Janice,
Excellent shot,great light color and sharpness.Very interesting composition.
Regards,
Nikos.

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  • eng55 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 349 W: 3 N: 375] (1115)
  • [2008-06-10 4:36]

Hi Janice,
Beautiful close up.I liked use of perspective a lot.Well seen and composed.
Thanks for posting.

I only have sat on a cactus once...and that was enough. with apologies to Jane in AR, I am not fond of the landscape other than a visit...but perhaps an implant to NZ might cheer it up:-) Very good macro!
I want to share what I have been doing so Click Here:-)
Bob

Well framed and presented in this image. Your perspective is my favorite part.

The golden barrel is not native to Arizona but is related to other barrel cacti that are. It is one of the most symmetrically shaped cacti there is to.

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  • rcrick Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 564 W: 39 N: 1020] (3308)
  • [2008-06-10 20:48]

Hello Janice,

Wonderful composition, the detail is stunning excellent lighting, really nice work, all the best,

Cheers Rick :)

Hi Janice,
The ubiquitous symmetry in the nature.
TFS.
- Nirmal

Nature at Geometry(did i spell that right?)...Yet again, Janice, you make something so common, look so exotic and beautiful that one feels compelled to admire such beauty in Creations' simplest and most common creations...From another perspective, it looks like gold mesh over a big emerald...
A lovely macro...
Thanks for the share!
Goldy

Hello Janice,

A very original shot of this Golden Barrel. Don't sit on it !!
I like this compo. Not the whole cactus but a peace. Great light, razorsharp and ful of fine details. Nice framework.

Thanks for sharing. Have a nice weekend and TFS BOB

Bonjour Janice
Une excellente photo en macro de cette belle fleur de cactus,les couleurs sont justes et parfaitements exposées ainsi que les détails.. Félicitations pour la belle composition .

Merci et bravo...JP

This is great Janice,
And all that thorny detail, very sharp! ;)
Seriously (is that possible?), you've done an excellent job here.
I don't think I could've done it any better.
Howard

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