bruno' s images in 2010

bruno · Post by **bruno** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:55 pm

just a few additions
Echinomastus mariposensis

Echinomastus intertextus var. dasyacanthus

Escobaria robbinsorum

Escobaria albicolumnaria

Post by **daiv** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:59 pm

Bruno,
New plants in your collection? Or just new flowers for the year?

Either way, they do not get much better than those!

Daiv

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:04 pm

Wow! Love that robbinsorum. what beautiful plants as usual!

peterb

iann · Post by **iann** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:07 pm

Neat Escobarias and Escobaria look-alikes

bruno · Post by **bruno** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:23 pm

just new flowers for the year Daiv, with a few others to come

Thank you Peter, mariposensis is over 16en years now, after I lost acunensis the oldest Echinomastus here ..

iann wrote:Neat Escobarias and Escobaria look-alikes

I remember Hester's comment about mariposensis being more like an Escobaria than other Echinomastus and others saying seedlings are almost indistinguishable from young Escobaria tuberculosa....

All worth growing gems, insn' t it?

ciao

bruno · Post by **bruno** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:04 pm

Could you say this is a cactus? Yes, it is Tephrocactus malyanus, a brand new addition here. Do you know anything of this plant?

The first flowers of Stenocactus coptogonus from seed

can you id this Stenocactus?

Echinomastus durangensis with red, alien spiders, do you know such insects? They are harmless for plants and I was told they predate rsm...

Gymnocactus horripilus

Gymnocactus subterraneus var. zaragozae

Pelcyphoras in full bloom

flowers&spines

Thelocactus nidulans

Mammillaria hertrichiana

Mammillaria pectinifera

Mammillaria roseoalba

a better view of Escobaria robbinsorum

last, Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele, the flower bigger than the plant ....

Hope you enjoy

Buona notte

CactusJordi · Post by **CactusJordi** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:17 am

bruno wrote:...
last Neowerdermannia volverki looks close to flowering
hope you enjoy...ciao

Yes, I did too!
But please start spelling the Neowerdermannia vorwerkii

Jordi

Post by **daiv** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:45 pm

I know that Tephro as Austrocylindropuntia lagopus.

This has got to be my favorite picture in the New Cactus Lexicon picture atlas. Anyone who has the NCL should turn to page 457.

Bruno - you need to get a bigger pot!

hegar · Post by **hegar** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:18 am

Bruno, those are magnificent plants you have. I was most surprised by the grouping of the Pelecyphora spp.. I do recognize the first two plants, but what kind of plant is that "hairy one"? Is that some special cultivar of Pelecyphora?

Harald

bruno · Post by **bruno** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:47 am

You are right Jordi, apologies for the confusion.

Daiv I am wondering whether I should edit the post, what do you think?

BTW do you know of Neowerdermannia chilensis? Is somebody growing this species?

Thank you Daiv, it is a graft, yes I' ll give it bigger pot.

Hi Harald, that is a plain P. strobiliformis, don' t remember if it comes with a fn, I' ll look into it and let you know

Ciao

Post by **daiv** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:04 pm

bruno wrote: Daiv I am wondering whether I should edit the post, what do you think?

Thank you Daiv, it is a graft, yes I' ll give it bigger pot.

Yes, you can just click the "Edit" button to change any of your post.

Do you have the New Cactus Lexicon? The picture in there shows a plant that is several meters across. That is why I said get a bigger pot - so you can get huge mound like that!

bruno · Post by **bruno** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:30 pm

Done Daiv, thanks.

Yes I have the NCL, I' ll take a look tonight

Ciao

Post by **daiv** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:50 pm

bruno wrote: Yes I have the NCL, I' ll take a look tonight

OK, let me know what you think. That should be the goal for your plant!

bruno · Post by **bruno** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:48 am

Huge

sure I don' t have a pot like that

Just an instance of how wonderful a cactus can be. I saw malyana is merged into lagopus, in the book Studies in the Opuntioideae, Iliff reports the they live pretty high (4000 and 4500 mt) and differ only in stems of malyana being narrower and giving rise to more compact clumps. The close up in NCL is quite impressive, thank you for driving me there

ciao

Post by **daiv** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 2:53 pm

Bruno,
I'm glad you checked it out. It made such an impression on me when I saw that. I wonder how old it is.

Well even if yours doesn't get that big, a real plant is still better than a picture!

Daiv