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fanaticactus · Post by **fanaticactus** » Mon May 18, 2015 3:07 pm

I missed getting any photos of my Echinopsis/Lobivia 'Rose Quartz' hybrid. It had only three flowers and they looked rather dismal. However, my Eriosyce taltalensis ssp paucicostata has been doing very well with a total of 11 buds and 5 open at once.

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cortez753 · Post by **cortez753** » Mon May 18, 2015 9:32 pm

Nice!

adetheproducer · Post by **adetheproducer** » Tue May 19, 2015 8:34 am

Never realised they got so tall, very nice indeed.

fanaticactus · Post by **fanaticactus** » Tue May 19, 2015 3:23 pm

adetheproducer wrote:Never realised they got so tall, very nice indeed.

Its height is quite surprising to me, too, but then again this is the first one I ever grew, so I can't speak from experience. As long as it's healthy...

Post by **DaveW** » Tue May 19, 2015 5:24 pm

In habitat:-

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fanaticactus · Post by **fanaticactus** » Wed May 20, 2015 2:09 pm

Thanks for the photos, Dave. As soon as mine stops blooming, I'll have to repot it and set it more upright. It probably could use a change of 'soil', too--although I use a 99% mineral mix.

Post by **DaveW** » Wed May 20, 2015 5:22 pm

I've got it's hairy pal in bud at the moment, E. paucicostata ssp. floccosa, but not quite as tall as yours yet. Usually the flowers are redder in E. paucicostata ssp. floccosa. Will try and post a picture when it flowers.

Meanwhile one of Roger Ferryman's pictures of E. paucicostata ssp. floccosa it in habitat.

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Robb · Post by **Robb** » Thu May 21, 2015 7:05 am

Are Eriosyce paucicostata floccosa, E. taltalensis floccosa and E. echinus floccosa just synonyms? I am growing some E. taltalensis floccosa from seed and I have been wondering for some time what it really is called. This genus really confuses me

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Post by **DaveW** » Thu May 21, 2015 10:40 am

Yes. It is all a result of lumping by succeeding authors or simply assigning them as varieties to different species. They were originally described by Friedrich Ritter who lumped everything into Pyrrhocactus, therefore you may find them under that name too. Ritter originally named them P. paucicostatus for the greyish-blue bodied form (not seen so much these days) and P. paucicostatus v. viridis (for the green bodied form as with fanaticactus's plant above) but the variety is now usually just subsumed under Eriosyce paucicostata.

The hairy plant was named P. floccosus. You will be growing E. floccosa from seed therefore whatever species it is reduced to varietal or sub-specific status under.

This was the original greyish bodied form Ritter called P. paucicostatus, which seems far less common than the green bodied v. viridis he also introduced:-

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A lot of plants were lumped under E. taltalensis by Fred Kattermann, whereas Paul Hutchinson's original taltalensis was only the red flowered plants from Planta Esmeraldana if I remember correctly.

iann · Post by **iann** » Thu May 21, 2015 9:23 pm

Yes, just buds here too, nowhere near matching your plant. I have both E. paucicostata and E. floccosa. My E. floccosa flowers are considerably smaller and pinker than E. paucicostata, but more strongly scented.

fanaticactus · Post by **fanaticactus** » Mon May 25, 2015 5:50 am

Just to balance out all the other problems I've been having this year, mainly with rot, there are a few cacti that have given me some nice blooms. Today it was two of the buds on an E. pentalophus and one flower on an Echinopsis/Lobivia hybrid 'Rose Quartz', which seems to be a weak bloomer this year with only one or two small-ish flowers open at a time.

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cactushobbyman · Post by **cactushobbyman** » Mon May 25, 2015 4:20 pm

In my area, I fight the heat and sunshine. My Echinopsis/Lobivia hybrid 'Rose Quartz ugly, sunburned, yellow, elongated and it just blooms. I'm afraid to try to help it. It may not flower.

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fanaticactus · Post by **fanaticactus** » Mon May 25, 2015 11:25 pm

Wow, CHM! Mine used to have that many blooms; maybe it's used up all the nutrients in the soil and needs repotting. Will yours recover some of its vigor after it blooms? Maybe during all these years, I've somehow switched the ID of mine, because it looks quite different from yours: fatter, shorter stems and a different flower color. Are there variations within this hybrid?

fanaticactus · Post by **fanaticactus** » Wed May 27, 2015 8:36 pm

Today the two enormous buds on my Echinopsis melanopotamica (leucantha) finally opened. They have a faint, sweet smell.

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A bonus was awaiting me: a flower on the Echinopsis cinnabarina (Lobivia acanthoplegma v roseiflora); I never saw the bud developing--it was hidden on the back. E. cinnabarina seems to cover several varieties. I have another E. cinnabarina which I purchased as L. draxleriana and has not bloomed this year.

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I also noticed my Echinopsis hybrid 'First Light' is starting on its second round of blooming.

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Post by **DaveW** » Thu May 28, 2015 9:31 am

My E. paucicostata ssp. floccosa has just started flowering, with many more buds yet to open. I can't claim credit for it as I only obtained it last year from the collection of my friend who died.

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