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Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2023 1:27 pm
by Mrs.Green
Beautiful pics as always! I especially liked the pot with Mamm. bocasana. Very nice!
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2023 5:35 am
by MrXeric
Mrs.Green wrote: โMon Jun 19, 2023 1:27 pm
Beautiful pics as always! I especially liked the pot with Mamm. bocasana. Very nice!
Thanks, Mrs. Green!
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 3:04 am
by MrXeric
Some June flowers.
The larger of my
Cochemiea theresae. It flowered in succession across several days this year, rather than all at once. I managed to pollinate all the flowers with saved pollen from my second plant. Hoping for a good harvest of seed.
A couple of
Astrophytum myriostigma.
I am not sure what to call this plant. It was labeled by Mesa Garden when I bought it two years ago as Lobivia thionantha v. glauca (#546.43), which is a synonym for Acanthocalycium glaucum. But apparently plants that flower red-orange were historically classified as Acanthocalycium aurantiacum, which is a synonym for Acanthocalycium thionanthum. Whatever it is, it's a nice plant, a bit slow though.
very waxy stem
Another plant with a dubious name,
Epithelantha chihuahuensis.
They are self-sterile. Both plants have been flowering daily this last week (flowers only last 1 day), so I've been manually pollinating them whenever I could catch them open. Hoping for seeds!
Bulbine mesembryanthoides, a winter growing geophyte, flowers in the summer.
crispy leaves in summer dormancy
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2023 1:57 am
by MrXeric
Astrophytum caput-medusae grafted on M. geometrizans and
Astrophytum myriostigma 'quadricostatum'. The quadricostatum has the smallest Astrophytum flowers of my collection. I crossed them, and predictably the quadricostatum did not set fruit, but the caput-medusae did. I've crossed the caput-medusae with other myriostigma plants before and it always sets fruit, but the seeds never germinate.
This one has the biggest flowers,
Astrophytum capricorne. Flowering on its own, so can't compare sizes!
A white-flowered
Chamaecereus hybrid. This plant was originally labeled Echinopsis 'Flambeau', an Altman Plants cultivar "characterized by distinctive magenta and orange flowers in a triple whorl", which obviously does not match the flowers on my plant. Oddly enough, that description is from the cultivar's patent found on Google Patents, and there are no pictures of the true "Flambeau" in flower that I can find on the internet.
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2023 10:22 pm
by MrXeric
Crazy day today in Southern California! Historic tropical storms. Earthquakes.
Didn't feel the quake, but the storm is giving us a nice break from the heat. Not a fan of the humidity though!
I was surprised to see this young
Parodia lenninghausii, only 10cm high, flowering for the first time. I was expecting it to grow larger before flowering!
I was also surprised to see that it is self-fertile. The fruit fell off with just a tiny poke yesterday, about a month after the flower closed.
Most of my Mammillaria have small, typically unscented flowers. Here's an exception:
Mammillaria sphaerica. It has the largest flowers of my collection and those have a lovely, sweet floral aroma.
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2023 12:34 pm
by Mrs.Green
I know I am repeating myself..but your photos are excuisite! That Mamm.sphaerica..lovely! I need to pester my florist again..
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 1:48 am
by MrXeric
Mrs.Green wrote: โMon Aug 21, 2023 12:34 pm
I know I am repeating myself..but your photos are excuisite! That Mamm.sphaerica..lovely! I need to pester my florist again..
Thanks!
And yes, I've been quite taken with this little plant! I tried training it to be in full sun, it didn't burn, but it didn't look happy either. I moved it to a more shady shelf and it perked right up. Makes sense, since this plant typically grows under the shade of scrub and bushes in the wild!
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:34 am
by ohugal
That Astrophytum capricorne flower makes you think you're staring into the sun!
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 4:08 am
by MrXeric
A few early fall flowers.
Astrophytum capricorne.
Astrophytum caput-medusae graft.
Copiapoa echinoides KK 93.
This was previously listed by Mesa Garden as "Copiapoa echinoidea". I didn't find anything online about that name so I assumed it was misspelled or mislabeled. Since I am no Copiapoa expert, I could not definitively ID this plant on morphology alone, just that it looked somewhat like C. coquimbana or C. echinoides. I instead relied on the locality data (KK 93 corresponds to a plant originally labeled as Copiapoa sp. from San Felix, Vallenar, Chile at 800m altitude), and found that that locality is too far south from the known distribution of C. echinoides, which occurs mostly to the north of the Huasco Valley. That Vallenar region falls squarely in the northern distribution of C. coquimbana, so I thought that there was a good chance this was that species.
But just recently I checked the listing on Mesa Garden and found that they changed the name to C. echinoides, noting that they had previously listed this plant as "Copiapoa alticostata 'echinoidea' ". After researching that name, I found this useful bit of information in Rudolf Schulz's Copiapoa book:
In the southern part of its range (Huasco Valley) C. echinoides tendencies are evident in populations of C. coquimbana, indicating widespread gene interchange. In the south, it can was difficult to decide which name to use for many individual plants where the majority were clearly C. coquimbana. Even as far south as the Domeyko Valley (40 k south of the Huasco Valley) the most inland populations of C. coquimbana (Ritterโs C. pseudocoquimbana var domeykoensis) appeared to have C. echinoides tendencies (fewer, shorter and less spreading spines, thick stems showing body color and an epidermis which can be somewhat coppery). For me, C. coquimbana โalticostataโ (see Charles, 1980, p. 38) from the Huasco valley shows many C. echinoides tendencies and is best be considered to be an intermediate between C. coquimbana and C. echinoides.
So it seems there is a chance my plant is a result of natural hybridization between C. echinoides and C. coquimbana. I guess Mesa Garden believes this has more C. echinoides character than it does coquimbana.
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 10:43 pm
by keith
The Mammillaria hernandezii I got from you flowered
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2023 3:56 am
by MrXeric
keith wrote: โSun Nov 12, 2023 10:43 pm
The Mammillaria hernandezii I got from you flowered
Nice
The other seedlings from the same batch I sent you haven't flowered for me yet, though one does have buds.
But the parents have flowered:
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2023 4:13 am
by MrXeric
Epithelantha chihuahuensis. I cross pollinated several flowers from each plant, but only one plant produced a fruit (with only 2 seeds!)
This one produced fruit much more readily,
Cochemiea schumannii 'globosa' (grafted on S. megalanthus).
The last flowers of the season on this grafted (on Pereskiopsis)
Discocactus horstii. There was a 2 month gap between this and the previous flush of flowers in September.
My
Huernia kennedyana was very floriferous this year with over a dozen flowers throughout the fall. I do wish there was more vegetative growth though. It only grew two small segments this year. I guess these are just slow?
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:07 am
by MrXeric
Fall is mesemb season.
White flowering Lithops:
Lithops julii C297.
Lithops salicola 'Sato's Violet - Bacchus'.
Lithops karasmontana 'lateritia' visited by a syrphid/hover fly.
A pot full of yellow flowering Lithops (a mix of
L. aucampiae and L. lesliei).
Pleiospilos bolusii.
Lapidaria margaretae.
Argyroderma pearsonii (or A. delaetii?). Could be a hybrid?
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2024 11:17 pm
by MrXeric
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:25 pm
by MrXeric
Titanopsis calcarea and T. hugo-schlechteri 'alboviridis'
Last year I crossed them and got seed only from the hugo-schlechteri. Most of the seedlings turned out to be variegated, but either they died out over time or they stopped growing variegated leaves. I don't see any calcarea characteristic, so maybe the hugo-schlechteri selfed? These are 9 months old.
Pleiospilos nelii. A bit oversaturated.
Turbinicarpus nieblae Sierra San Carlos, Tamaulipas, Mexico. I bought this plant from miles2go 2021 and this is the first time it has flowered for me.
Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus.
These were sown fall of 2020 and this is their first time flowering (the larger one was previously grafted). US dime for scale (~18mm diameter).