Minime8484's C&S Collection - 2014
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Minime8484's C&S Collection - 2014
It's time to start a new year of plant & flower posts! Actually, I'm a little behind as things started blooming in my yard about 2 weeks ago!
Here are the ones popping up so far.
My Mammillaria decipiens var. camptotricha was the first to start blooming earlier this month; it's tailing off now, and was tough to photograph in the dappled light. Other Mammillaria starting to bloom: My Agave potatorum started growing the bloom stalk on October 3, 2013, but the first flower opened just this weekend; stalk is just over 20 ft tall. No pups, so I hope it makes a lot of bulbils! And, my first Cleistocactus bloom of the year!
Here are the ones popping up so far.
My Mammillaria decipiens var. camptotricha was the first to start blooming earlier this month; it's tailing off now, and was tough to photograph in the dappled light. Other Mammillaria starting to bloom: My Agave potatorum started growing the bloom stalk on October 3, 2013, but the first flower opened just this weekend; stalk is just over 20 ft tall. No pups, so I hope it makes a lot of bulbils! And, my first Cleistocactus bloom of the year!
Re: Minime8484's C&S Collection - 2014
No Winter in Chandler, is it?
I have an Agave potatorum too. But mine is soooooooo small. I have it in 4" pot. I don't think it will ever flower.
Others are nice aswell.
I have an Agave potatorum too. But mine is soooooooo small. I have it in 4" pot. I don't think it will ever flower.
Others are nice aswell.
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nice start of the season!
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)
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
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Micranthocereus flaviflorus has been blooming for over a month now.
First bloom from my Mammillaria haageana ssp. elegans also opened this week.
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Perhaps a little late to this, but that's not Mamm. microhelia. More Mamm. haageana ssp elegans.
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Thanks, Dan! You are correct!
Here's another Mamm blooming today - a first bloom for me!
Here's another Mamm blooming today - a first bloom for me!
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Should be a great year for my Cleistocactus!
Today, two of my specimens of an undescribed taxon of Cleistocactus from La Paz, Bolivia opened their first blooms of the season.
Pictures simply cannot capture the color of the distal ends of the flowers of this species - it is a vibrant pinkish-purple that is set off from the reddish-orange remainder of the flower.
Add that to the beautiful dark brown spines, and this one is one of my favorites.
Hope to get seed this year!
Today, two of my specimens of an undescribed taxon of Cleistocactus from La Paz, Bolivia opened their first blooms of the season.
Pictures simply cannot capture the color of the distal ends of the flowers of this species - it is a vibrant pinkish-purple that is set off from the reddish-orange remainder of the flower.
Add that to the beautiful dark brown spines, and this one is one of my favorites.
Hope to get seed this year!
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Actually, your plant is Micranthocereus flaviflorus/M. flaviflorus var. densiflorusMinime8484 wrote:Micranthocereus polyanthus has been blooming for over a month now.
Micranthocereus polyanthus is the Backeburg type plant (originally the E. Werdermann Cephalocereus polyanthus type plant) notable for it's pink flowers.
Attribution for the very floriferous cacti (for a period of several weeks in the mid-winter of our northern hemisphere) of this genus is often a problem for they are not often encountered in cultivation.
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Excellent, James!
I have long thought that this had been misidentified. I got it ID'd as M. polyanthus, and didn't have any others of that species to compare to, nor did I have true M. flaviflorus; however, I have always noted that I suspected it was another species and probably M. flaviflorus!
Great to finally get confirmation!
Thanks so much!!
I have long thought that this had been misidentified. I got it ID'd as M. polyanthus, and didn't have any others of that species to compare to, nor did I have true M. flaviflorus; however, I have always noted that I suspected it was another species and probably M. flaviflorus!
Great to finally get confirmation!
Thanks so much!!
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You are most welcome Minime.Minime8484 wrote:Excellent, James!
I have long thought that this had been misidentified. I got it ID'd as M. polyanthus, and didn't have any others of that species to compare to, nor did I have true M. flaviflorus; however, I have always noted that I suspected it was another species and probably M. flaviflorus!
Great to finally get confirmation!
Thanks so much!!
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More flowers this week:
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Thanks all!
The parade continues:
The parade continues: