Pygmaeocereus bylesianus

süleyman · Post by **süleyman** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:52 am

Hi all,
Nocturnal flowers of this rare species from coastal Peru.
The main stem is 10 cm long and flowers are 3 cm in diameter.
Enjoy

more pics.
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/alb ... 6952NEyUjv

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:06 am

Great plant and flowers Suleyman!

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:44 pm

Super cool plant süleyman.

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:48 pm

beautiful as always! Love the flowers on those. Such a small plant (pygmy), but long flower tube and huge white flower. Very well grown!

peterb

gio · Post by **gio** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:36 pm

Very beautiful flowering!

Giovanni.

Bill in SC · Post by **Bill in SC** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:14 pm

Never heard of that one, but it does not surprise me that suleyman posted it. Man, you have quite the rare stunners! We appreciate you, and your plants!
BB in SC

ihc6480 · Post by **ihc6480** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:16 pm

Fantastic looking plant and flowers Suleyman

peter · Post by **peter** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:22 pm

Nice plant and an interesting bloom!

Antonio_P · Post by **Antonio_P** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:28 pm

Wow! These are vey looonnng!

Nice pictures!

süleyman · Post by **süleyman** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:00 am

Thank you, friends

You can find more information with the 'more pics.' link.

Stuart E · Post by **Stuart E** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:38 pm

Excellent Suleyman. I've just split up a nice clump that had been attacked by red spider mite; it's been a bit stubborn about flowering ever since getting scorched a few years ago, so I'm hoping that dividing it might rejuvenate it a bit. It was a "big" clump - i.e. about 3 1/2" across!

It's a very variable species, and almost all of the species that used to be in Pygmaeocereus are now lumped under P. bylesianus. I have a nice white-spined form that I recently picked up from Richard and Wendy Edginton.

hob · Post by **hob** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:24 pm

Stuart the bit i got from you just sits in the pot and refuses to root

most of the others are the same

Stuart E · Post by **Stuart E** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:34 pm

Yes, I ended up binning the pieces I had left from that plant Hob as I had much the same thing. I think it had been without roots for so long that the pieces just weren't going to bother.

This other plant was younger and much healthier - nice tuberous roots on each piece after I split it, so each one should get going nicely. Chuck that other one out and I'll send you another when I'm a little more organised.