edds wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 6:27 pmI'm trying to breed some with more interesting spiny bodies as well so they look better when out of flower.

My most spiny [15px01]:

A spindly one of mine [15px04]. I kept a pair of seedlings and both have produced these sorts of flowers so far this year (not sure about previous years).

The pair of Matucana madisoniorum I posted on p1 of this thread are reposted below, together with an update - one survived and one didn't.

I got round to cutting my plant down this week, principally to make it easier to cut the hedge.

I should really have updated this when I fould out more. Firstly, PH 205.01 is a Paul Hoxey collection, not a Paul Hutchison number, and is from the same location as the GC plant that Graham Charles used as the type in his 2010 first description. I did get in contact with the herbarium and, despite ...

I question the supposed short-livedness of this species, and wonder if it's not just a case of several factors - they're self-fertile, [for most people] easy to germinate, and adult plants get scruffy once the first flush of growth slows after a couple of years: they certainly seem tired. Perhaps fe...

The flower is always nice (my plant's is much paler) but this plant earns its keep even out of flower - and mine isn't very woolly.

I've noticed a similar thing with my plant. It's only ever produced one branch and this stayed very small for years but I notice that it's starting to take off.

It's annoying when you've given up on a pot of seed and reused the compost for something else, only for it to germinate very much later. I've no idea what this is.

Somewhat ahead of mine!