^ carts not built yet........thats happening this fall. buggy whip can be seen here on my diesel jeep:
@Stone @Hammer @Caleb O What is this plant? Picked it up while out west try for hand drill. No leaves, up to 4’ tall, top foot was seed pods as shown. Thanks.
No time right now -- getting ready for an afternoon canoe adventure on a local pond with a friend (!!!!). Those dried seed pods ring a familiar bell for me, but I can't put my finger on it. -- but my first guess would be ocotillo. But it does have leaves, at least some times of the year. But some still living out there will know it, I'm sure.
Here's an image from that wiki page illustrating the densely packed flowers at the top during blooming. The leaves appear very reduced there -- but it is a cactus.
Ah, then, no, not ocotillo. I can almost see that plant in my mind's eye, but the name is still escaping me ... Off to paddle!
Thanks guys! It really could have been anybody in this thread! We are certainly a forum full of adventurers
I'll add my congrats here, too. Well deserved, sir! But in a way, we all won here, I think, just from the experience. I know I did. It's just that you got some extra stuff.
I'm stumped on that one, SEMO. Do you remember where (what state, approx. elevation, etc) you found it?
That's a relevant question. I thought of it earlier. There are four distinct desert types in the US -- Chihuahuan (esp southern NM into Mexico), Sonoran (AZ mostly and into the state of Sonora), Mojave (extreme W AZ, little bit of CA and NV) and Great Basin (most of UT, NV, eastern OR and WA, parts of ID). There is some overlap in vegetation -- especially where two intersect -- but not much. Knowing what part of what state it came from will help with ID.