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:
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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! = )
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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!
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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.
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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.
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C. buchtienii - As with the previous, I have one of this species already, but wanted a nice data-rich specimen!
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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!
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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.
- Cleistocactus spp. (Sacred Succulents)
- Sacred Succulents (12-14-12).JPG (74.75 KiB) Viewed 1698 times
Maybe someday I will find some of those that I want!