Which Copiapoa krainziana is best?

[iann]

This little one is tagged as var scopulina, for what that's worth in this varied species. It does have very nice, quite stiff, white spines.

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This much older plant is the fairly standard "hairy" version.

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This slightly lop-sided one has darker stiff spines.

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[Ivan C]

For me. scopulina.

[DaveW]

According the Roger Ferryman and Graham Charles the brownish spined (and stiffer spined) ones are part of a hybrid swarm extending up the valley between the coastal Copiapoa's and C. krainziana further inland. R. Ferryman habitat pictures:-

Copiapoa krainziana

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C. krainziana with brown and black tipped spines in crown

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Stiff spined "C. krainziana"

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The brownish spined form is often called brunispina. but Ritter later named it scopulina, though strangely a lot of white spined krainziana type plants go around as scopulina. Whether collected seed from them also produced white spined plants I do not know-

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http://www.palkowitschia.cz/sukulenty/i ... ePart2.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[greenknight]

I like the one with the brownish spines, it's just got more going on.

[DaveW]

My memory is not what it was these days so I forgot we discussed this previously on the BCSS Forum with some who had been to habitat:-

http://www.bcss.org.uk/foruma/viewtopic ... 1&t=151395" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;