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One positive change occurred last year in the form of a large California bay that was removed. This provided the cactus garden area with in-between several to a few additional hours of sun through the year. They’ve responded really well so the potted cacti were moved out of the shade house with plans for expanding the cactus bed to incorporate them too. This is easily the most unfriendly environment I’ve exposed cacti to.

This was one of the five that were merged together in a single pot in the shadehouse. I could not find a tag. I’d guess from body and spines that this probably involved Juul’s and something like peruvianus. Thanks for any thoughts.
(The largest one in that group was tagged Kimura’s Giant but I have not yet taken images of it. I believe the ID is right on that plant.)
Two of the others had the same name tag and the last lacked a name tag but could have been a sibling unless I mistook its tag for one of those two when separating them. I’ll get some photos of those three and their tags together soon.

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This one possessed a tag with the name pallarensis. It was attacked by some sort of apical rot in the shade house this last winter but seems to have survived.

 

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tagged pallarensis

Peltis pippingskoeldi

This Peltis species is one of the “bark beetles”

Peltis sp.

Peltis pippingskoeldi beetles excavatiing a conk.

 

Peltis sp.

Peltis pippingskoeldi eating a conk.

These like to “play dead” when they get disturbed. I was initially puzzled wondering why I was finding only dead ones.

Peltis sp.

Peltis pippingskoeldi

 

Leave them alone and they come back to life pretty fast.

a conk

Their chosen conk; a young Fomitopsis pinicola

conk-eaters

Peltis pippingskoeldi starting some two level excavations on that conk.

 

 

 

 

Peltis sp.

Peltis pippingskoeldi

Peltis sp.

Peltis pippingskoeldi

Peltis sp.

Peltis pippingskoeldi

Peltis sp.

Peltis pippingskoeldi

Peltis sp.

Peltis pippingskoeldi

Peltis sp.

Peltis pippingskoeldi

 

I am believing that these next ones are some sort of beetle larvae (based on their body and the configuration of antennae).

conk with beetle larvae

Another conk with beetle larvae

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beetle larvae

beetle larvae

beetle larvae

beetle larvae

beetle larvae

Pyrola picta

Pyrola picta
White-veined wintergreen or white-veined shinleaf.
Is just beginning to send up spikes at the end of May and will be flowering as we move into June.

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Pyrola picta; white-veined wintergreen

Pyrola picta

Pyrola picta; white-veined wintergreen

Pyrola picta

Pyrola picta; white-veined wintergreen

Pyrola picta

Pyrola picta; white-veined wintergreen

Pyrola picta

Pyrola picta; white-veined wintergreen

Pyrola picta

Pyrola picta; white-veined wintergreen

Pyrola picta

Pyrola picta; white-veined wintergreen

Pyrola picta

Pyrola picta; white-veined wintergreen

Pyrola picta

Pyrola picta; white-veined wintergreen

Pyrola picta

Pyrola picta; white-veined wintergreen

Pyrola picta

Pyrola picta; white-veined wintergreen

Pyrola picta

Pyrola picta

Pyrola picta

Pyrola asarifolia subsp. bracteata

Pyrola asarifolia subsp. bracteata
Pink wintergreen

In 2015 these are just getting started now (last week of May). This is a preview of what we can expect in the next several weeks!

 

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata on 23 May 2015

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata; Pink wintergreen

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata; Pink wintergreen

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata; Pink wintergreen

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata; Pink wintergreen

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata; Pink wintergreen

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata; Pink wintergreen

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata; Pink wintergreen

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata; Pink wintergreen

Pyrola asarifolia ssp. bracteata

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata
Spotted coralroot
This was noticed on 23 May 2015 but it has obviously been flowering for a while.

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral-root

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral root

Corallorhiza maculata

 

Cardamine

The Cardamine species are known as Milkmaids.
They are among the first noticeable flowers appearing every Spring.

Not long ago I would have said this one was Cardamine californicum var. integrifolia (AKA the Coast Milkmaid; formerly Cardamine integrifolia) but apparently that species has been lumped and no longer exists except as Cardamine californicum.

Coast milkmaids

Cardamine

Coast milkmaids

Coast milkmaids

Coast milkmaids

Coast milkmaids

Coast milkmaids

 

Most of the year they look like this:

Coast milkmaids

Coast milkmaids

Coast milkmaids

Coast milkmaids

Iris douglasiana

Iris douglasiana, AKA Douglas’ iris, is a very common plant of the coastal forest in Mendocino County.
It is not clear to me how many are actually true and how many are hybrids with other local species.

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Iris douglasiana

Iris douglasiana

Iris douglasiana

Iris douglasiana

Iris douglasiana

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Iris douglasiana

Iris douglasiana

Iris douglasiana

Iris douglasiana

Iris douglasiana

Iris douglasiana

Iris douglasiana

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