Can "Ming Thing" have flowers?

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What a trip! I had a crested flower on a Lobivia crest a while back but these take the cake. Nice!
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Re: Can "Ming Thing" have flowers?

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Unbelievable! Monstrose flowers. I would never have thought to see such a thing. I wish MINE were doing half so well.
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Re: Can "Ming Thing" have flowers?

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Monstrose plants often produce monstrose flowers, if you can get them to flower that is. Of course why we don't see so many monstrose Cerei flowering is that Cerei usually have to be taller and more mature to flower and monstrose ones usually grow slower than normal ones anyway.

However in the Cactaceae monstrose flowers are not all that uncommon, though probably seen more in the smaller globular cacti, sometimes when two flowers fuse together at an early bud stage.

An example on a normal Soehrensia bruchii a flower with two styles and sets of stigma lobes, obviously two flowers from the same areole fused at an early stage. All other flowers on the plant have been normal
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