A few events and oddities

[BarryRice]

Hey all

A few interesting things on my mind.

First, last night I caught my Echinopsis mirabilis blooming. What a dainty wonder! I grew these thumbsized plants plants from seed given to me by Fanaticactus in August 2013----thanks!!!!

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[BarryRice]

Second thing...

How common is a pink-flowering Matucana madisoniorum? We have this beast at our campus collection that looks like the normal orange clone, until it flowers...

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It has never offset, so recently I've taken to heroic measures to try to get it to reproduce for us...

Barry

[BarryRice]

Finally, another fab flowering event.

A few years ago I snipped off and rooted a stem of a cactus from our University collection. It's flowering great this year. Ever since I rooted the stem it has gotten taller, tripling its height. It currently looks like a strange little columnar. I'm hoping it will start clumping soon.

The curators think this came to them from the SW corner of Colorado (near Cortez). According to my Echinocereus monograph, that would make this E. fendleri ssp. fendleri. I adore the flowers!!!!

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[adetheproducer]

Beautiful flowers. That matucana is stunning and the purple flowers on the Echinocereus.

[fanaticactus]

I am so happy the mirabilis seeds were successful. A very nondescript cactus until it flowers. The colors on both the Matucana and the Echinocereus are stunning--and I've not seen quite so many flowers thickly packed onto an Echinocereus before.

[cactidan]

[/quote]It has never offset, so recently I've taken to heroic measures to try to get it to reproduce for us...[/quote]

Does this mean, decapitation

I don't recall seeing an orange flowered one in this country, my plant is a red one

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That fendleri is stunning! I have about 20 odd one year old seedlings and I hope that is the colour they'll flower too.

[BarryRice]

Extreme measures--I excised a few areoles from the plant, and grafted them onto Pilosocereus. I've discovered that if I do this, Matucana scions may grow from the areole. So I'm hoping to get new starts that way.

[KittieKAT]

Love the purple flowers I don't think I've seen many flowers that color on cacti is beautiful