Echinocereus engelmannii and regional forms

[peterb]

munzii is on my list to find and photograph. SEINet gives these coordinates for a collection in San Bernardino County: 34.30000 -116.81120. I wonder if it is really an engelmannii? I think there has been some speculation that it is not. The given habitat seems awfully odd for anything like engelmannii, ss. I look forward to seeing your plants as they progress. I also want to find and photograph llanurensis, down in MX. Those are beautiful plants.

peterb

[Aaron_In_Utah]

Hi. I'm new here but I've been browsing for a while. I just wanted to share some pictures of Echinocereus engelmannii that I found growing about 20 miles southwest of Wendover, Nevada. These pictures are from June, 2007 but I went back this year and was able to collect a few seeds.

[iann]

Var crysocentrus? It's a pretty one, nicely coloured spines and pretty long too.

[A. Dean Stock]

Hi Aaron,
Blake Wellard passed along your information on the E. engelmannii plants you found near Wendover. As you know, Blake is working on Echinocereus in Utah and is working on a description of a new species. I think that chromosome counts will confirm Iann's ID for your plants as var. chrysocentrus but as yet, we don't know how far north the new species ranges.
Dean

[Aaron_In_Utah]

I'm glad to hear that is a known population and that it's being studied. Does anyone know how far north engelmannii grows in Utah? I purchased a plant many years ago from Intermountain Cactus that I believe they said was from the Salt Lake Desert. It looked different than all the engelmannii that I've grown or seen. Here are a few pics showing its growth over the years. I really liked this one and wish I still had it.

[cantharis]

Gorgeous floration !!