Gymno identification.
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ElieEstephane
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Gymno identification.
This is what i always thought was a G. Baldianum but comparing to another G. Baldianum i can see some differences. The color is lighter and the shape is taller rather than globular. The flower buds are red rather than green. Could it be just a hybrid?
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Armen Tsirunyan
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Re: Gymno identification.
It's not always an easy task to pinpoint the exact species of Gymnos but it could well be one of the varieties of G. anisitsii. It could also be G. baldianum. I have sown it 2 years ago and I now have ~20 2-year old plants and they all look quite different from each other.
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ElieEstephane
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Re: Gymno identification.
Thanks for your reply! The one i thought was G. Baldianum flowered today and it's a white flower which is weird.Armen Tsirunyan wrote:It's not always an easy task to pinpoint the exact species of Gymnos but it could well be one of the varieties of G. anisitsii. It could also be G. baldianum. I have sown it 2 years ago and I now have ~20 2-year old plants and they all look quite different from each other.
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Re: Gymno identification.
White flowers could be G. anisitsii, the one with red buds probably is baldianum.
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Re: Gymno identification.
There is also G. baldianum var. albiflorum --> see last Cactus explorer, p. 47.
(http://www.cactusexplorers.org.uk/Explo ... mplete.pdf)
(http://www.cactusexplorers.org.uk/Explo ... mplete.pdf)
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Re: Gymno identification.
Flower colour can vary in many species. The problem can be historically the plant collectors in the past did not collect a representative sample of the population and then nurserymen bred from only the most attractive forms. Therefore we get a standard, but possibly untypical clone in cultivation, which may not match the variation of subsequent re-collections in modern times.
If you read Graham Charles Gymnocalycium book you can see illustration of flower colour variation in quite a few species, also what was the same species being separated into other species or varieties on flower colour alone because in the past the describer did not know population variation..
If you read Graham Charles Gymnocalycium book you can see illustration of flower colour variation in quite a few species, also what was the same species being separated into other species or varieties on flower colour alone because in the past the describer did not know population variation..
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ElieEstephane
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Re: Gymno identification.
Thanks for your input guys! One of the flowers has 2 flowers inside it which reminded me of another post that the same gymno but i can't find it.
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