ID?
-
Cacti Coffee
- Posts: 8
- Joined: Sun Jan 15, 2017 11:45 am
- Location: Ireland
ID?
Can someone ID this for me please
- Attachments
-
- rps20170211_162117.jpg (40.72 KiB) Viewed 611 times
Re: ID?
It's the chlorophyll-free form of Chamaecereus silvestrii grafted onto Hylocereus undatus. They are usually quite short lived, not least because the green bit (Hylocereus) is fairly tender.
-
Cacti Coffee
- Posts: 8
- Joined: Sun Jan 15, 2017 11:45 am
- Location: Ireland
Re: ID?
Cheers. So is another name for this Echinopsis chamaecereus ?
-
greenknight
- Posts: 4819
- Joined: Tue Apr 30, 2013 4:18 am
- Location: SW Washington State zone 8b
Re: ID?
Yes David Hunt changed the name on moving it to Echinopsis since an Echinopsis silvestrii already existed. Therefore the existing Echinopsis silvestrii takes priority under the "first name at that rank" rule in the Botanical Code covering naming. It you move it out of Echinopsis again to another genus the specific name reverts to silvestrii, unless that genus also already has a species named silvestrii in it.