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[*] posted on 5-25-2025 at 06:22 AM
Gringo Gazette Blunder


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.




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[*] posted on 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).



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[*] posted on 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]
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[*] posted on 5-26-2025 at 09:25 AM
The Gringo Gazette is a noted fount of misinformation


*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 ...

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