World's Biggest Loph??

cactoman · Post by **cactoman** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:52 am

Anyone ever see such a plant? Got this plant pic from FB

Brunãozinho · Post by **Brunãozinho** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 1:59 pm

Great picture, it's hard to have any idea about its age. Maybe this location have great conditions for them to grow from seed, it seems this is a population concentrated in a small area rather than a single plant, I'm not sure...

Arjen · Post by **Arjen** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 2:07 pm

notice the hole in the middle, it seems to have sprouted after the center was removed
meaning this isn't actually how it normally would have grown

adetheproducer · Post by **adetheproducer** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 5:29 pm

I wonder if its a wild caespitosa.

Post by **DaveW** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 8:41 pm

It's probably an old plant of the form knows as Lophophora williamsii v. caespitosa which forms numerous heads, though I think many cacti can throw up caespitose forms:-

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I think the hole in the centre is more likely to have been where somebody cut out a chunk in the past, or browsing animals ate it rather than that causing it to go caespitose.

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