ASaffron: I just took it for a day hike, just to have brought (presumably) the most unlikely thing in the history of the mountain to the top
I took it back down with me, a bit worse for wear. But I've got enough baby pitayas that it's not a problem if something happens to it, and knowing pitaya, the arm may end up breaking off from the flexion stress, I'll have too much of a heart, I'll plant the lose arm, and both will grow into new plants
I really should try to get a totally unexpected plant growing somewhere in the ground, though... not sure what I could get to survive. Hmm, come to think of it, I could start a plant indoors and then plant it come summer (then either dig it back up later or let it perish come fall). I'd need a plant that could tolerant good winds and brief frosts, though, if it's going on a place like Esja. Heck, if I *really* wanted to confuse the heck out of people, I could "plant" it in a glacier (buried pot, concealed as best as possible). But that'd require an even hardier plant.
Jackfruitwhisperer69: Heh, there is no single "Iceland's landscape", although some features here are more common than others
. Despite the size (about the size of Kentucky, Cuba, or South Korea; a bit bigger than Ireland), each part of the country is radically different. For example, the south gets rainforest-level rainfall, while parts of the northeast are desert, and the shifting volcanic fissure zones and eruption patterns and flood patterns over the years have sculpted each area radically differently. Esja is Reykjavík's "city mountain", the most prominent mountain on the city skyline. So it's maybe 2 dozen kilometers from the city center by road, less as the crow flies.
To get an idea of what different parts of Iceland look like, Google Images gives a pretty good impression:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1600&bih=677&q=iceland+nature&gbv=2&oq=iceland+nature&aq=f&aqi=g5g-S5&aql=&gs_l=img.3..0l5j0i24l5.369.1481.0.1589.14.10.0.2.2.1.164.975.3j6.9.0...0.0.ZsxGDfQyCL0Just stunningly beautiful. Here's some pics from my favorite place in the country (that I've been so far!), a canyon called Jökulsárgljúfur (Glacier-River Canyon) in the north:
http://www.production.republik.is/assets/2008/6/20/J%C3%B6kuls%C3%A1rglj%C3%BAfur_Rau%C3%B0h%C3%B3lar_lost_1_copy.jpghttp://www.weltweitwandern.at/system/itineraryimages/1510/normal/is-101-0_Small_.jpg?1294993593http://img.geocaching.com/cache/de4db8c5-e5da-4010-9ee5-a664e1bf6538.jpghttp://samuelrosset.ch/gallery2/d/3651-2/Island2010_264.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/hellmaker/4447429440/#sizes/l/in/photostream/http://www.eikongraphia.com/images/iceland/Iceland_Basalt_6_S.JPGThat's just one canyon, out of thousands. Can you see why I fell in love with this place?