Flowering tonight

Arzberger · Post by **Arzberger** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:01 am

Hi all,

tonight there are florwering two very nice cacti, so I want to share the pictures with you...

Setiechinopsis mirabilis, 1 year old, grafted seedling:

Discocactus hartmannii:

The Discocactus flowers have a very intense and nice, lemon-like perfume, it takes all my garden!

Best regards
Alex

Post by **daiv** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:12 am

Alex,
The Discocactus just blows me away! I've not heard of that species before.

Daiv

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:32 am

Beautiful indeed! Thanks for sharing those photos.

peterb

Lewis_cacti · Post by **Lewis_cacti** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:50 am

The discocactus is great!

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:18 am

NICE!

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 4:18 am

Very nice!

Mark

Arzberger · Post by **Arzberger** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 4:51 am

Thanks, now I hope to get some seeds from this very rare, endemic, paraguayan discocactus, which seems to be already extinct in ts habitat.
By the way, some authors are seeing this spec. as a synonym to D. heptacanthus, but in this manner, you have to include also the species magnimammus, patulifolios, mamillosus, paranaensis, melanochlorus, lindaianus and others as synonyms.

Regards
Alex