wow, amazing plants Craig.. keep them coming
That is the best looking Mammillaria i have ever seen.
i'd take one of those M. luethyi in a second.. too bad i can't get them through customs either Paul. Ive never even seen one here.
Good luck in finding Mammillaria luethyi
Its pretty rare in cultivation
Mine are cuttings from a graft
Otherwise, I couldn't even find any seed
The photos are from my first plant, but the graft and plant died a couple years ago, so I got another one 2 years ago, which the new rooting cuttings are from.
I'm hoping that they are different plants, so when the second one finally flowers, I can get seed.
The mammillaria luethyi situation is set to change fairly soon, with several growers producing very large quantities of seed and grafted seedlings, including one Arizona nursery I visited recently.
daiv wrote:Paul, I don't think you'll have too much trouble finding one in the UK. Hob, Ian, etc. will probably be able to point you in the right direction.
Paul i looked at several places and did'nt see any for sale i don't have one myself, not really my thing.
incurable cactoholic
growing rebutia's with a mix of others.
Miles to Go has 1 inch grafts for $6. For example. Must have been some of the huge crop I saw at Anderson's nursery when I visited last fall.
It's always this way with recently discovered cacti. They are made immediately available to a few collectors, most often through unscrupulous and nefarious means (haha) and then slowly become part of the trade. The same will eventually be the case with Digitostigma caput-medusae. The only exceptions are when a plant is so doggoned hard from seed or difficult in cultivation that it remains rare in the market. Someone was telling me that Yavia cryptocarpa is an example.
Ariocarpus selection
The big one
Long turbicles
Ariocarpus retusus x trigonus,
no aeroles, white flowers from between old turbicles, not from the center
Standard Ario fissuratus
Ario fissuratus intermedius, we call it the cats tongue
And then the retusus X fissuratus
looks like a Haworthia
A couple of succulents
Avonia quinaria in flower
The buds always make me think "Please feed Me"
Haworthia truncata cv Lime Green
Turbinicarpus krainzianus minimus
We found this plant at the Orange County Cactus Succulent Society camp-out at Anza Borrego, near the McNair Ranch
Its called Pholisma arenarium, a parasitic plant
Jaw dropping, as always Craig. I love looking at Ariocarpus hybrids. Though the stability/time/patience required must fall into the "watching paint dry" category.
The Digitostigma seedlings look great. What a wild plant.
I'm actually a big fan of plant parasites and those Pholisma are otherworldly for sure.