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Echinofossulocactus sulphureus    8/4/21
This is a real oddball plant. It's not normal, nor is it cristate (yet?). You can see at the base of the plant the fine white baby spines. Then the normal shift to juvenile spines, and an attempt to grow adult spines. The shape is right, but the color is wrong. Still white, not dark brown. The plant then changes its mind and starts making juvenile spines, which transition once more into adult spines, but not quite, but finally at the plant tip, it looks like real adult spines are forming. This plant has never flowered. Its mates have been flowering for five years. I'm curious what will happen with this plant. I wonder if it will never decide to be fully mature, or what. I can't classify it a cristate, but it surely is not a mature plant like the 15 others. Confusion about sex is not only among animals. Plants have their share. It's perverse of our society to persecute our LGBTQ members. They had no choice in how Nature decided to make them. Why did we used to put them in jail for being their biological themselves? And why do we even care about how Nature organized their inner biology? Their problem, not ours.   (087/112)   

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