Help in identifying please

[Brix]

Hi there,

I have this beautiful plant, please can you help identifying it? Had it for about 3 years, and now is the first time it has flowers

Thank you

[teo]

The stems and the flowers look like Cleistocactus winterii BUT the colors are wrong. The stem should have yellow spines and flowers should be orange. I guess it's some other cleisto (maybe a hybrid?)

[DaveW]

Certainly not a Cleistocactus sensu stricto from the flower.

As you say Teo it is reminiscent of a Winterocereus winteri flower, but having slightly hairy stems like W. colodemono, though not hairy enough to be W. colodemono, therefore could be a hybrid since it does not fit Bolivicereus either?

[toadstar]

Beautiful. It looks like a cuddly octopus.

[DaveW]

An interesting quote on the Web for Cleistocactus, Hildewinteria, Winteria, call it what you will:-

"Hildewintera hybrids: Hildewimtera aureispina (now renamed Cleistocactus winterii) is an old species that has been intensively hybridized with other cacti (especially Echinopsis and Lobivia sp. but also Matucana, Akersia, ecc) giving rise to some interesting intergeneric hybrid.
Hildewintera hybrid develops really amazing flowers of different colours on the original pendulous "hildewintera" body and many of these hybrids have cultivar names. This plants form soon spectacular clumps with several flowers at a time and are quite a sight. They are often thicker, stronger, larger growing than H. aureispina and tend not to have the typical thin stemmed offsets. The offsets produced being more strongly attached to the main stems"

All of the hybrids I can find seem to be with H. aureispina, having golden spined stems. If yours is a hybrid I would think it is a cross between H. colodemono and probably something like Akersia roseiflora?

http://www.atomic-plant.de/bilder/Kakte ... flora.html

http://episllum.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/ ... nonis.html

http://www.hildewintera.com/hildewinter ... mples.html

[Brix]

Thank you all for your comments and help, very much appreciated.