Source for Uebelmannia pectinifera?

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Source for Uebelmannia pectinifera?

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I'm having a hard time finding a source in the US for Ueblemannia pectinifera, specifically the form with shorter spines, like this:
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It looked like gosucculent.com might have it, but they're out of stock, and Daniel said there's just not enough demand to bring it back in stock. Does anyone know of anywhere else in the US I should check?
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Keep an eye out on http://www.canddplants.com/seed-list/ or http://www.canddplants.com/cactus-for-sale/
Not available now, but could be later this year?
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Easy to find in Europe, though. Why not look for it over there?
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I don't think it is easy to import plants from Europe to the USA due to CITES regulations, or vice versa from USA to EU Aiko. Seed should be no problem though and freely pass from the EU to America. I don't think they take that long to grow from seed in a warm climate.
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mikej wrote:I'm having a hard time finding a source in the US for Ueblemannia pectinifera, specifically the form with shorter spines, like this:

Uebelmannia_pectinifera.jpg
(Source: arctic_fx on Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, cropped and resized)

It looked like gosucculent.com might have it, but they're out of stock, and Daniel said there's just not enough demand to bring it back in stock. Does anyone know of anywhere else in the US I should check?
I think you may be looking for this:

http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... lticostata

Darryl Craig at CoronaCactus is selling them on eBay as U. pseudopectinifera:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Uebelmannia-pse ... Sw2xRYllsB

Not sure where he's getting "pseudopectinifera" from, because I can't find it as a recognized species name anywhere -- could be simply a misidentification on his part. Anyway I have a U. pectinifera multicostata in the collection, and from my experience, full sun all day is what brings out their attractive brown/brownish-purple skin.

Hopefully I'm pointing you in the right direction here.
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Uebelmannia pseudopectinifera is longer spined than the original short comb like spined U. pectinifera. There are quite a few U. pectinifera variants such as pseudopectinifera and multicostata

http://www.cactus-art.biz/schede/UEBELM ... nifera.htm

http://www.cactus-art.biz/schede/UEBELM ... nifera.htm

http://www.cactus-art.biz/schede/UEBELM ... ostata.htm

Whilst Uebelmannia's look different as small plants they all tend to look very similar as tall fully mature ones in habitat. An interesting new novelty is Uebelmannia eriocactoides, which is a beautiful gold as a seedling or small plant, but looks just like a long black spined pseudopectinifera as a fully adult plant.

See:-

http://www.cactiguide.com/cactus_co/New_Uebelmannia.pdf

Names in botany do not have to be appropriate, but it is interesting in the comparison table in the link above that "multicostata" = many ribs, has fewer ribs on average than the others. :D
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Aiko wrote:Keep an eye out on http://www.canddplants.com/seed-list/ or http://www.canddplants.com/cactus-for-sale/
Not available now, but could be later this year?
Thanks! I see that they say they accept wish lists and may have unlisted plants, so I'll get in touch with them (and keep an eye on their availability list).
DaveW wrote:I don't think it is easy to import plants from Europe to the USA due to CITES regulations, or vice versa from USA to EU Aiko. Seed should be no problem though and freely pass from the EU to America. I don't think they take that long to grow from seed in a warm climate.
Thanks for the suggestion; I went ahead and bought some seed. I've been really getting into growing from seed, so this could be fun.
Steve Johnson wrote:I think you may be looking for this:

http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... lticostata

Darryl Craig at CoronaCactus is selling them on eBay as U. pseudopectinifera:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Uebelmannia-pse ... Sw2xRYllsB

Not sure where he's getting "pseudopectinifera" from, because I can't find it as a recognized species name anywhere -- could be simply a misidentification on his part. Anyway I have a U. pectinifera multicostata in the collection, and from my experience, full sun all day is what brings out their attractive brown/brownish-purple skin.

Hopefully I'm pointing you in the right direction here.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I have a saved search on eBay for Uebelmannia pectinifera, but I'll have to expand it a bit to catch plants that may be listed slightly differently.
DaveW wrote:Uebelmannia pseudopectinifera is longer spined than the original short comb like spined U. pectinifera. There are quite a few U. pectinifera variants such as pseudopectinifera and multicostata

http://www.cactus-art.biz/schede/UEBELM ... nifera.htm

http://www.cactus-art.biz/schede/UEBELM ... nifera.htm

http://www.cactus-art.biz/schede/UEBELM ... ostata.htm

Whilst Uebelmannia's look different as small plants they all tend to look very similar as tall fully mature ones in habitat. An interesting new novelty is Uebelmannia eriocactoides, which is a beautiful gold as a seedling or small plant, but looks just like a long black spined pseudopectinifera as a fully adult plant.

See:-

http://www.cactiguide.com/cactus_co/New_Uebelmannia.pdf

Names in botany do not have to be appropriate, but it is interesting in the comparison table in the link above that "multicostata" = many ribs, has fewer ribs on average than the others. :D
Thanks, that PDF looks very interesting! I also didn't realize that the fully mature adults tend to look similar; that's good to know. I think it's really interesting how variable the same species can be.
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I also didn't realize that the fully mature adults tend to look similar,"

Mind you it takes a long time to get them that big, so most of ours will retain their juvenile characteristics for as long as we have them.
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