Diane,
The plant in the picture is single headed, more or less globular and about 2" in diameter. This is it's first flowering. Possibly they flower quicker on a graft and take longer on their own roots?
Dave Whiteley
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- Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:43 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Yavia cryptocarpa
- Replies: 23
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- Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:44 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Yavia cryptocarpa
- Replies: 23
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Re: Yavia cryptocarpa
Mine also seems to have set fruit, although I only have the one plant so it may either be self fertile, or have hybridised with something due to insects but I do not know what would cross with it? I suppose it could also be parthenogenesis, the self fertilisation through stimulation by foreign polle...
- Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Turbinicarpus schmiedickianus ssp. rubriflorus
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Turbinicarpus schmiedickianus ssp. rubriflorus
I find Turbinicarpus schmiedickianus ssp. rubriflorus one of the most attractive Turbinicarpi. I should remember to remove the dead flowers before photographing however! [attachment 5375 rubriflorus2.jpg] When I first joined the society in 1961 Turbinicarpus were very rare and considered difficult a...
- Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:09 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: possible fero
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Re: possible fero
Hard to tell the first one, it may be even Echinocactus grusonii which is tuberculate as a small plant before the tubercles form into ribs.
DaveW
DaveW
- Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:05 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Yavia cryptocarpa
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Yavia cryptocarpa
If any of you had Yavia cryptocarpa grafts from the BCSS what colour did they flower? Mine flowered pink and others have said theirs did so also. A friend of mine who knows the plant from habitat though says his flowers white. [attachment 5373 Yavia.jpg] I gather I am supposed to introduce myself on...