cactus with red lower - id request

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Pierreedou
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cactus with red lower - id request

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Hi,
could you please help me with id the following cactus which just bloomed with this magnificent red flower which only lasted a day.
Thanks
Pierre
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Looks like a Lobivia, now lumped into Echinopsis.
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Some beautiful hybrid Echinopsis eg Cabaret, Temptress, Antares, Firelight etc
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Yep. There are so many of these hybrids that it's often impossible to determine which you've got if it's unlabeled. I really love the color of this one, though, wish I knew its name.
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Thanks both. You guys/girls rock !
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greenknight wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:52 am Looks like a Lobivia, now lumped into Echinopsis.
I would also say Lobivia, impossible to say at first glance what species it may be and/or if it's a hybrid
This comment needs correction though, since the DNA-research of Schlumpberger et al. in 2018 Lobivia is no longer lumped under Echinopsis
With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
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Lobivia acanthoplegma was the closest to a match that I could find, but it doesn't quite fit - I think it's more likely a hybrid.
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