Welcome Craig Fry!

Craig Fry · Post by **Craig Fry** » Thu May 15, 2008 5:21 pm

Yavia crytocarpa, grafted. I think it may be related to Puna/Opuntia, but may be wrong. Blossfeldia? They are from Argentina.

phil_SK · Post by **phil_SK** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:33 pm

Yavia is said to be most closely related to Neowerdermannia and beyond that to Eriosyce.

vlani · Post by **vlani** » Thu May 15, 2008 8:23 pm

Have not see Yavia seeds for sale yet. Everyone has just a single plant? They are not too hard to bloom on graft.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri May 16, 2008 2:03 am

Great pics Criag I really like your m.saboae V. haudeana

Mark

Craig Fry · Post by **Craig Fry** » Fri May 16, 2008 5:45 pm

Better photo of Yavia cryptocarpa
Wooly top

Eriosyce aurata, I bought it as Erioscye ihotzkyanae about 7 years ago, and it was grafted.
I de-grafted it a year later, and its been growing about an inch a year. Cool new spine colors.

Epithelantha pachyrhiza

Matacana formosa, but w/out flowers, will post it again then

Mammillaria saboae v. haudeana, again, better photo than above

Opuntia, Please ID, if you know. never flowered, very fleshy lobes, no spines, but nasty glochids

Heres a tool I use to blow sand and dust off on plants and hard to reach spots, a straw would work.

Used on "Lizard Skin" to get rid of those pesky rocks

Bridgets Beauty, Shick Echinopsis Hybrid

phil_SK · Post by **phil_SK** » Fri May 16, 2008 6:10 pm

Your Opuntia is the monstrose form of Austrocylindropuntia subulata. It looks quite different to the young plants you usually see and which are regularly posted on this site for IDing - I think they get tired as they grow older and never look quite as good as young ones.

Craig Fry · Post by **Craig Fry** » Fri May 16, 2008 6:19 pm

Thanks Phil, Daiv told me the same, but I thought I would check around.

Craig Fry · Post by **Craig Fry** » Mon May 19, 2008 6:56 pm

Some new photos from the weekend.
Echinopsis Shick hybrid, Icon

Orange Hybrid

Sulcorebutia krugeri v. hoffmanniana, great two toned flowers
Shy bloomer

Sulcorebutia krugeri

Sulcorebutia rauschii, green

My Pelecyphora aselliformis finally flowered !

Another echinopsis hybrid

Post by **daiv** » Mon May 19, 2008 10:28 pm

Craig,
I'm starting to think you've got more plants since my visit there....

I remember many, but some I don't and how could I miss them?

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Mon May 19, 2008 10:54 pm

phil_SK wrote:Your Opuntia is the monstrose form of Austrocylindropuntia subulata. It looks quite different to the young plants you usually see and which are regularly posted on this site for IDing - I think they get tired as they grow older and never look quite as good as young ones.

Hrmmm, to me it looks like O. monocantha montrose. Which can look very similar to A. subulata monstrose, but monocantha has that yellow/red/orange color to it.
http://www.cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus ... monacantha

Craig, dude! that Eriosyce aurata is spectacular!!

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Tue May 20, 2008 2:14 am

Awesome flowers Craig lots of great colors.

Mark

phil_SK · Post by **phil_SK** » Tue May 20, 2008 4:59 am

CoronaCactus wrote:
phil_SK wrote:Your Opuntia is the monstrose form of Austrocylindropuntia subulata. It looks quite different to the young plants you usually see and which are regularly posted on this site for IDing - I think they get tired as they grow older and never look quite as good as young ones.
Hrmmm, to me it looks like O. monocantha montrose. Which can look very similar to A. subulata monstrose, but monocantha has that yellow/red/orange color to it.
http://www.cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus ... monacantha

I'm pretty confident I'm right. Also, the photo in that link looks wrong for monstrose monacantha, don't you think?

Craig Fry · Post by **Craig Fry** » Thu May 22, 2008 9:23 pm

Here are some more with flowers
Lobivia haematantha v. rebutioides

Same as above, but crested,
The plant above was a cutting of a uncrested portion of below

Rebutia heliosa v. cajasensis

Rebutia buiningiana

Mammillaria theresae

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:10 pm

phil_SK wrote:
CoronaCactus wrote:
phil_SK wrote:Your Opuntia is the monstrose form of Austrocylindropuntia subulata. It looks quite different to the young plants you usually see and which are regularly posted on this site for IDing - I think they get tired as they grow older and never look quite as good as young ones.
Hrmmm, to me it looks like O. monocantha montrose. Which can look very similar to A. subulata monstrose, but monocantha has that yellow/red/orange color to it.
http://www.cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus ... monacantha
I'm pretty confident I'm right. Also, the photo in that link looks wrong for monstrose monacantha, don't you think?

Fair enough, you know more than I

I was going by the comment from Dave F. and the plant i have that i *thought* was O. monacantha monstrose...which looks very different from my A. subulata monstrose and others i've seen. But then again, monstrose plants are just as, if not moreso, variable than the regular versions.

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:11 pm

Again, awesome plants Craig!
That Rebutia heliosa v. cajasensis is insane, look at all those flowers open at one time