I think S. rosarioana is generally acknowledged to be one of the smaller flowering soehrensias. This is a rubriflora form WR528 that I had from the Edgingtons, Unfortunately was away when the flowers came out!!! Still, flowering in a 4" pot.... 2396d_l_formosa_ssp_ros.jpg This one of mine also ...

Do you know if any is propagating E. (or S.) serpentina. Have been on the lookout since the original article but never seen it. I guess there's always ELK in September................

And lets not forget these other non-yellow beauties : 1009d_n_roseiflorus.jpg now submerged into Parodia mueller-melchersii 1262d_n_roseoluteus (4).jpg now under Parodia mammulosa 1456d_n_purpureus (18).jpg one of the autumn flowering notocacti now placed under Parodia horstii and finally (drum roll...

IMHO I dont think this is E. kermesina - the flower is opening too wide and flat. Kermesina typically keeps it flowers more funnel form even in a generously sunny place like Croatia! I would stick with the unknown Echinopsis hybrid.

I dont want to be accused of hogging the Genus of the Month....... @Dave W - spookily Dave my E. apachensis has just decided to bloom for the first time as well. A very nice plant indeed, particularly as it doesnt seem all that common at the moment. IMG_9827.jpg I also had to share this one, given m...

Funnily enough a few days after first reading this .... lo and behold!!!!!! I got this as a rather battered, shrivelled specimen from Abbey Brook nursery in 2011. Brian Fearn assured me that it is the real deal. After a little cosmetic surgery to remove some too-far-gone stems the plant has started ...

And a final four :
The very final offering is this superbly long spined form of E. viereckii with, as a double bonus, large, sumptuously purple flowers :

To finish this contribution a couple of posts of odds and sods from the genus :

The next set are my favourite - the plants that sit around E, polyacanthus :
and finally (this one may or may not be taxonomically related)

Next Echinocereus triglochidiatus and some of its close friends :
Next 3 examples of the E. coccineus clan :