Stars & Stripes or Peanuts?

...or something else to take your fancy?
Have captured a few pix over last couple of weeks. I offer them for your pleasure.

Stars & Stripes has been a real treat with 16 flowers in one go, the small garden specimen managed two this yime round


And the peanuts...

An unknown cultivar:


cv "Wotan":


and the real deal:


This one was labelled L. pentlandii, but I don't think that's what it is:


Another unknown cultivar:


L. cinnabarina (syn draxleriana):


L. lateritia (syn carminantha):


other unknowns:


Enjoy,

CP

Stunning as usual. I'd love to come and see your garden one day CP.
Great work.

great flowers CP i have purchased a couple of different chamacereus sylvestrii myself recently and i am amazed by the difference, and when looking up the species i find that the yellow bannana graft is the same species. i am looking forward to getting some seed of mine and seing what variations can come of them.

i also purchased a lobivia arachnacantha and am about to get a flower... the plant is tiny but the flower looks like it is going to be huge!!!

once again... amazing plants CP!!!

kind regards
Darren

Thanks Darren, this year I have tried cross pollination of a couple of my chamaecereus, just to see what I get.
L arachnacantha is a nice little species, it'll be interesting to see what colour the flower is on yours, mine ispinkish red, and I used to have a white one.

CP

i think i missed the flower of L. aracnachantha today but it looks like dark pink... it is a tiny plant only about 2cm across but the flower must have been 3-4 times the size of the plant. i am spewing that i missed it i had to work late.
hopefully i dont have to work back tomorrow and i will get a picture to compare with yours!!

regards
Darren

Darren wrote:

i think i missed the flower of L. aracnachantha today but it looks like dark pink... it is a tiny plant only about 2cm across but the flower must have been 3-4 times the size of the plant. i am spewing that i missed it i had to work late.
hopefully i dont have to work back tomorrow and i will get a picture to compare with yours!!

regards
Darren

Ain't it a bummer when that happens... the flower on this species is usually quite large by comparison to the plant body.

Here's a couple of pics of mine, unfortunately I lost the white one.


Kanje - thanks, you'd be welcome to visit sometimes.

Cheers, CP

i think mine would have looked much like the first one hopefully it is open again tomorrow!!

i am trying to make lobivia another of my target species. that white one looks great but i must send condolances... very unfortunate.

regards
Darren

i finally got a pic of the flower but i reckon i was an hour late

this shows the size of the flower compared to the plant... i realy like this one.

Lobivia arachnacantha or does it come under echinopsis arachnacantha?

regards
Darren

Darren wrote:

Lobivia arachnacantha or does it come under echinopsis arachnacantha?

regards
Darren

Nice one indeed mate!
It is now correctly labelled Echinopsis ancistrophora ssp. arachnacantha, I think this dark pink form was once known as L. ancistrophora var. torrecillacensis.

CP

does that mean all lobivia now come under echinopsis?

Darren wrote:

does that mean all lobivia now come under echinopsis?

Yes 'fraid so... I still like the name Lobivia though.

CP