Named after Alonso García Luna.

1% is suitable for use as a mouthwash so 3% isn't going to do you much harm if you splash it on (though I wouldn't want to breathe a mist of it). I can't say whether it's any good at killing mealies.

Eric, have you thrown away the dead flowers yet? I'm curious to see how they look now. My related tricho flowered a few days before yours and I noticed the dead flowers went black and are still quite fleshy. Here's a photo with a E. mamillosa alongside (which flowered at around the same time) - it q...

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Yes, I'm familiar with that paper. I wasn't advocating the reduction of Borzicactus to synonymy under Cleistocactus. In fact, if you look at the links I posted, I was seeking to contrast the flowers of C. samaipatanus with those of Borzicactus and Loxanthocereus to support its exclusion from those g...

That is not a closed flower Phil, it is a Borzi. flower. I disagree. It's quite similar to Cleistocactus winteri though more flared at the end than many cleistos. Have another look: samaipatanus: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18847860 (I think this is subsp. divi-miseratus) or https://ww...

No Echinopsis (better Lobivia) bridgesii in there either, I reckon.

and a Cleistocactus rather than a Borzicactus.

But bear in mind that E. bridgesii and T. bridgesii are not the same thing.

I'm guessing the plant is only a couple of cm across? Mine have produced flowers when ridiculously small.