Astrophytum myriostigma cv. kikko

Hello!
We'd like to show you some of our myrio kikko, the forms of this cultivar are really various:

myrio kikko koh-yo yellow


myrio kikko nudum (and bit 'hakuun')


myrio onzuka kikko ball


coahuilense kikko


carlo & daniele

TFS
Im in love with the cultivar's you Italians are so lucky to have
Would you be able to maybe post a photo of your Digitostigma i can see in the background?

amazing!
i really love the first pic, its like a rainbow in the background with all those variegated astros etc.
yes i would like to see the grafted digitostigma as well, its got tubercles going everywhere.

Thanks guys!
Here there is a photo of the plant flowering at the end of september.

Beautiful!!
ps. you have an amazing collection in the background of your pics!! nice work.

Thanks lewis! That part of the greenhouse is only with grafted cacti.

Omg, your collection is even more amazeing! The digi is awsome, id probly kill just for a tubericle off it.

Carlo & Daniele, do you have any experience grafting tubercles of Digitostigma?

That digi is unreal what a weird and wonderful plant

@ lewis: we do not have a big experience on grafting tubercles (we are a bit lazy and made only few attempts...). This type of grafting was made after the discover of this new plant, in order to develop fast this new plant. But with this method you can obtain clones of the same plant. We prefered to buy some grafted plants and obtain seeds from them, since own roots plants are different clones and much fascinating that grafted plants. The best stock for this plant seems to be ferocactus glaucescens. The plant in the picture is grafted on echinopsis.

@ MichaelCactus and Vicki: thanks!

Some another myrio kikko forms:

kikko nudum grafted on pereskiopsis:



a form of onzuka kikko, always on pereskiopsis; it's still quite small but it's growing with quite regular ribs now



coahuilense kikko with 4 ribs



carlo & daniele

I love them all. Makes me want to move to Italy!

Carlo & Daniele, is it more common amongst collectors in Italy to sell plant already grafted. Also, are there many collectors in Italy that you know of? Like a society or something like that.

Hello KanJe, grafted cacti are common amon astro cultivar, since grafting is the only way to develop fastly these uncommn plants. Other plants are usually on own roots. About societies, on the web there are some forums, for example:

http://www.cactus-co.com/forum/index.php

http://www.panarottocactus.net/phpBB2/index.php

carlo & daniele

The astro photos on the second forum are totally amazing.

It's because it's focused on astrophytums!

Carlo & Daniele
It seems your are real Kikko lovers. I also have several forms of kho-yo, kikko nudum.
The attached photo is similar to you plant, attached photo on 28th Nov. This one is red color and called "Red Bean".
This plant was grafted but I degrafted, diameter is around 15 cm.
Since plant is matured, not turend color in winter but the gene of Red Bean is remained.
Your kikko form of coahuilense is very nice. We call that form as "Konpeito" and I think it has not been in Australia yet.

Thanks Hanazono, you have very good plants! Are your plants principally from seeds? We are astro lovers, we appreciate also other cultivars (not only kikko forms), but we collect also other genera. The coahuilense form is called "hakuran", but we do not know the difference from "konpeitu", do you know?

Thanks
carlo & daniele

Carlo & Daniele

All my plants have been germinated from seeds.
"hakuran" is the Japanese name of coahuilense.
haku (white)
ran (myriostigma)
Kikko form has three names related degree of roughness.
Shallow one: rokkotu (costae)
Normal one: kikkou (tortoiseshell)
Extreme one: konpeito ( a star shaped Japanese candy)

Hanazono

hanazono i have send you a pm!

Thanks for the infos hanazono!
Next days we will post some other photos!
I tought rokkutsu was also the japanese name for the 6-ribs asterias, is it right?

Carlo & Daniele
Rokkotu is not 6-ribs asterias.
6-ribs asterias is called as rokuryou kabuto.
roku (six)
ryou (ribs)
kabuto (asterias)
Hanazono

Hanazono wrote:

Carlo & Daniele

All my plants have been germinated from seeds.
"hakuran" is the Japanese name of coahuilense.
haku (white)
ran (myriostigma)
Kikko form has three names related degree of roughness.
Shallow one: rokkotu (costae)
Normal one: kikkou (tortoiseshell)
Extreme one: konpeito ( a star shaped Japanese candy)

Hanazono

Heheh here we go ..... KONPEITO Candy.

Thats so funny.
If I ever make a new cactus hybrids, I'm gonna name it after my wife.
Or my dog, I haven't decided yet.

Cool! Some cultivar names are really strange, we do not know the name is taken from candies!

Here there is another form of coahuilense with very deep tubercles: