Minime8484's C&S Collection - 2012

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Looks nice! :D
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A surprise bloomer this week...that I was lucky enough to find last night when I got home from a 5 day break - so glad I didn't miss it!

Haageocereus versicolor var. aureispinus - opened at night:
Haageocereus versicolor var. aureispinus (night)
Haageocereus versicolor var. aureispinus (night)
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Stayed open long enough in the morning to get a semi-day photo:
Haageocereus versicolor var. aureispinus (Day)
Haageocereus versicolor var. aureispinus (Day)
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hmm that is an interesting plant :)
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great looking plant and flower, how large and old is the plant?
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Arjen wrote:great looking plant and flower, how large and old is the plant?
Thanks! I've only had it for about a year, so can't say how old it is, but it is about 2 ft tall with 3 arms (bloom is on the tallest arm) and grew about 6 inches since I got it.
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I just looked at pages 1 to 15. =D>
What a great collection you have. Beautiful blooms.
I think I spotted the unknown Cleistocactus you have that looks like mine.
I need to get more Echinocereus I think :)
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What better way to spend the winter doldrums than to sleuth out your most-wanted cactus?

An early Xmas Present to myself just arrived today - all Cleistocactus relatives (Of course!).
Super stoked to have found my most wanted species: Cleistocactus xylorhizus.
Almost all with great data and grown from field-collected seed, and all from the fantastic nursery Sacred Succulents (CA).

From L-R and T-B:
- C. fieldianus - this is a cutting sold to me of a monstrose form; a friend of mine loves monstrose and crested cacti, so I figured it would be a nice Xmas present! = )
- C. plagiostoma - cutting from a plant they grew from seed coll in 1993; one of the two new species of Cleisto's for my collection in this batch! Now, I just have to get it to root; the flowers on this species are a vibrant violet!
- C. sp. - they had this labeled as "Cleistocactus/Haageocereus sp?" from seed collected another botanist in S Ecuador; however, to my knowledge, Haageocereus doesn't make it into Ecuador at all, and now that I have the plant, I'm sure it is probably C. sepium, but it will be exciting to see it mature.
- C. fieldianus - I have a couple of plants of this species already, but this is my first one grown from field-collected seed with specific locality info.
- C. buchtienii - As with the previous, I have one of this species already, but wanted a nice data-rich specimen!
- C. sp. - This is a plant SS grew from seed from a customer that did some collecting in Bolivia; so, with exact locality data (Yotala), will be interesting to see which one of the many species in the area this one might be!
- C. xylorhizus - It must be a really slow-grower as it is over 2 yrs old from seed, but only 2" tall! That's OK. I'm patient (OK...well, sometimes...)

That might hold me until Spring.
Might. :D
Cleistocactus spp. (Sacred Succulents)
Cleistocactus spp. (Sacred Succulents)
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Tristian,
nice! I am starting to look for sources of Opuntia. ;) Maybe someday I will find some of those that I want! :)
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Beautiful plants Tristan. I know next to nothing about Cleistocactus, so I will watch your topic in future years to learn a lesson or two.

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One last shopping spree for 2012!
As Santa well knows, I am EXTREMELY easy to buy for...and that was proven again this week when he delivered a nice gift certificate to my nearby C&S store (AZ Cactus Sales)!

So this week, I headed over there to see what I could come home with - these are the results:
BOX 1
Back - Astrophytum ornatum, Agave attenuata
Front - Thrixanthocereus (=Espostoa) blossfeldiorum, Thelocactus bicolor var. bolaensis, Notocactus magnificus
And the tiny one in the very front/right corner - Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele (purchased as Turbinicarpus sp., but I think I've ID'd it correctly now based on help from this site!)

BOX 2
Back - Mammilloydia candida, Notocactus elegans (=Parodia arnostiana), Ferocactus macrodiscus
Front - Copiapoa haseltonia, Thelocactus hexaedrophurus

Not too bad! Can't wait to plant them out!

Hope Santa was good to everyone! = )
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Xmas C&S Haul
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Nice new additions! =D>
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Nice plants, but I dont think the ID on that Agave is correct - if it is an Agave
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philwilliams wrote:Nice plants, but I dont think the ID on that Agave is correct - if it is an Agave
Thanks!
Agave attenuata is one of the rather anomalous Agave species and can be somewhat confusing in that it has very soft leaves and forms a nice little 'trunk'...definitely one of the more non-Agave-like Agaves, but an Agave nonetheless! :D
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nice new additions!
With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
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