spring cacti flowers

Yesterday I saw my first Trichocereus flower of the season. It was a brilliant white flower almost bigger than the plant it came from, T. schickendantzii. I took some photos but I'm currently using dial up and I'll have to wait till I get into town to upload.
Also where I'm staying there was a flowering Notocactus and some Mamms.
Anyone else with flowering plants yet? It'd be great to see some photos.

cool prier. that's early.
no flowers for me yet, other than a renegade Mamm carmenae that flowers all winter.
buds though, on echinocereus, turbs, toumeya, mamm mystax, echinopsis and that's it.

Just had a Turbinicarpus Hybrid flower....it was beautiful. If it is still around tomorrow I will take a shot and post here

^cool, look forward to it

Well the Turbinicarpus flower didn't open today....But I took a shot anyway. Heaps of my plants are/are about to flower. I will post more shots when I get a chance.

now thats a cool plant. not that i'm that good with them but which species is the hybrid of?
i look forward to more upcoming flower shots from your place

Just Astrophytum Myriostigma and a Lophophora.But he Astrophytum flower all the time.

Lobivia aracnacantha, I'm not to sure about the spelling.

Very nice. I think you missed and "H" near the beginning of the latter, no matter, these are truly drool worthy and we know what you mean anyway...I'm pretty sure looking at amazing cacti is part of prier's job description, now it's time for us to bow before the master

Real nice flowers prier, I love the orange of the Lobivia. Looks like a serious cacti garden you have there



More Turbinicarpus flowers from today.



Turbinicarpus Rioverdensis

Very nice HN!!! Never heard of that one, quite an attractive species if I do say so myself.

Trig I think the most correct name for it is Turbinicarpus schmiedickeanus
ssp. Rioverdensis. Yeah its a nice turb, I like the flat tubercles.



And another pic from today whilst i'm here:

Melocactus Peruvianus

here is a coupla Turbini pics





Lophs arent far off, got this nice lil suprise when i checked on them this morning

Turbinicarpus polaskii:

Nice pics PD and Lewis Keep em coming.

ok

Some great cacti porn in this thread, no doubt about it

What size is that Loph in pic #2 of the above post PD ^^^

Amazing pics!!! i am waiting, very "patiently' for my turbs to flower!!! my obregonia all flowered, but i missed tehm with my camera


L. williamsii f. caespitosa


got some buds of other species coming

cant wait to see more pics!

That lil fatty is about 40mm trig.

Nice shot Kada, and a fantastic plant

Mamm. carmenae white spined form:


this species was once extremely rare in collections, near impossible to obtain and one of the ultimate prizes of the cactus grower. now it is somewhat common commercially. this specimen has unusual pink stripes through the flowers too, indicating it could be x laui. the type species has yellowish spines and white/cream flowers.

How did I miss this thread...........awesome everyone

I will add to it very soon I promise, heaps of buds happening and the summer like heat of the last few days will bring them on pretty quick

Wow - all those turbs - flowers almost bigger than the plants.

Fantastic shots guys - keep them coming

Mammillaria bocasana multilanata type:

Gymnocalycium netrelianum: