Don Jorge - 5-25-2025 at 06:22 AM
This article was in my feed trough yesterday. Found amusing the mistake made by the author and the oversight or lack thereof by the editor.
https://gringogazette.com/2025/05/23/sarahuaros-the-elder-gi...
What can one say? How about buy a field guide, observe, learn and share information, not misinformation. Right, the Gringo Gazette, never mind, carry
on.
David K - 5-25-2025 at 07:28 AM
Indeed... it was also on a Mexican Facebook page. The cactus shown is neither saguaro or cardón, either. It is one often brought up as being in Baja,
but (as I recall) is in Oaxaca... first photographed by Leon Diguet (who worked for Boleo in Santa Rosalia and photographed many of the painted
cliffs, but also traveled in Mainland Mexico).
PaulW - 5-25-2025 at 08:16 AM
Pachycereus Weberi.
Correct no mention in the literature of relation ship to Saguaro or Cardón.
FYI here is what I found
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycereus_weberi
https://llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACTI/Family/Cactaceae/7669/...
lots of local names in the second link
[Edited on 5-25-2025 by PaulW]
The Gringo Gazette is a noted fount of misinformation
jedge42 - 5-26-2025 at 09:25 AM
*always* double-check (maybe triple-check) anything you read in that "paper" ... it does actually have useful and accurate information at times ...
just not reliably ...
jake