Nomenclature of Opuntia Cactus Spines
I have been enumerating the spines of my opuntia, which are in the thousands. It seems far too difficult to name them individually; however, they might well be grouped by tens, hundreds, even thousands. Such groups are families, for example the kynn family, kgerrard family, and so forth. I am delighted with the results. Whereas spines previously were associated only with a particular pad, now they are placed within smaller communal organizations of both friendship and cameraderie. For a long time, I worked on the various family names; the following are the results. Please note there may be repetitions; consider this one of the follies of the time, the difficulty to track anything at all (given the relative explosion of information, to which the spines themselves are immune). Enjoy - 10 ggold 20 crystal 30 cbpp 40 obsidian 50 kynn 60 daz 70 rmc 80 kynn 90 rtaylor 1000 daz 1010 cbpp 1020 ma 1030 daz 1040 rmc 1050 grvsmth 1060 rtaylor 1070 val 1080 daz 1090 rtaylor 2000 seligman 2010 richp 2020 cbpp 2030 xuanmai 2040 val 2050 tss 2060 seligman 2070 rmc 2080 jfn 2090 richp 3000 xuanmai 3010 rmc 3020 jfn 3030 baldwin 3040 daz 3050 kgerrard 3060 checker 3070 bhp 3080 clay 3090 kylet 4000 daz 4010 grvsmth 4020 bord 4030 kgerrard 4040 val 4050 kylet 4060 egg 4070 tomcarr 4080 tss 4090 mcrosby 5000 val 5010 richp 5020 bhp 5030 jfn 5040 kylet 5050 jfn 5060 egg 5070 bitty 5080 jfn 5090 bhp 6000 kuper 6010 mrovner 6020 jfn 6030 rmc 6040 lederman 6050 rmc 6060 kylet 6070 bitty 6080 crystal 6090 bord 7000 mittle 7010 ggold 7020 marathon 7030 bord 7040 kuper 7050 herschel 7060 bartlett 7070 mcrosby 7080 obsidian 7090 jfn 8000 bartlett 8010 ma 8020 rmc 8030 jfn 8040 hd-fxsts 8050 marathon 8060 kuper 8070 cshapiro 8080 bhp 8090 kynn 9000 thor 9010 lederman 9020 ma 9030 snefru 9040 hd-fxsts 9050 claudia 9060 obsidian 9070 herschel 9080 obsidian ==
