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Friday, May 02, 2008

and it bloomed...

Posted by Claude at 3:13 PM

Labels: cactus, echinocereus

1 comment:

Julie9:36 PM
WOW...that flower looks so amazing it doesn't even seem it could be real!!! Very cool!
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