gymnocalycium first bud

[lopinweapon]

[adetheproducer]

Cool.

[K.W.]

Look´s good, be careful with the sun - 40/100 % is enough. . .


Best wishes

K.W.

[lopinweapon]

Look´s good, be careful with the sun - 40/100 % is enough. . .


Best wishes

K.W.

Thank you so much for the advice! It gets about 4 to 5 hours of morning sun full shade afternoon.

[lopinweapon]

And now it is open!

[hegar]

Nice plant. Gymnocalycium members produce showy blossoms. I do love my G. baldianum.
What species of Gymnocalycium is your plant? I did have a G. bruchii, but managed to kill it. Those stems were rather small, but the flowers were a lovely light pink.

Harald

[keithp2012]

I've got a few gymnocalycium mihanovichii and they bloomed at once it was pretty, do they need two different flowers to cross pollinate or are they self fertile?

[lopinweapon]

Nice plant. Gymnocalycium members produce showy blossoms. I do love my G. baldianum.
What species of Gymnocalycium is your plant? I did have a G. bruchii, but managed to kill it. Those stems were rather small, but the flowers were a lovely light pink.

Harald

Thank you. The plant was labeled as Gymnocalycium cordobense.

[iann]

Nice one. Judging from the colour, I'd say it is getting the right amount of sun.

I see the name G. cordobense all over, but I don't think it has ever been published. I wonder what it will be lumped into

[7george]

This might be Gymnocalycium robustum, it looks about that and grows in Cordoba.

http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... m_robustum" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Description: Gymnocalycium robustum, as the name states, is a robust, rugged cactus species characterized by thick ribs and round podaria (tubercles) with few short spines and thick receptacles and fruits. Previously, it was circulated under the name Gymnocalycium cordobensis.

See also Gymnocalycium quehlianum in this cactiguide.com.