It's certainly a very nice plant Tony, but I'm not sure it's pygmaea 'eos'. The spination doesn't look right, though it's still a young plant, and the flowers look a bit pink over all, rather than pale white/pink with a random darker mid stripe that is described for 'eos'. I'd like to know what it w...

You got a nice prize there. I don't think I've seen a pygmaea flower quite like that.

Thanks. It's a very nice plant. Can I ask where you got it from?

Yes the first is Gymnocalycium andreae and the second a very nice form of Rebutia pygmaea. I would be interested to see a larger picture of the Rebutia.

I had never heard of this form of Rebutia pygmaea until I spotted it while browsing John Pilbeam's Rebutia sales bench about a month ago I bought a small plant and has now produced two flowers. Apparently it was first described in 1999 (S. Mosti, Cactus & Co., 1999 / 3 (4): 207, 1) and it has ra...

One more from today, Mammillaria herrerae.

Three more Rebutias brightening the nursery trays today.

Nice to see this in flower for the last couple of days. It is a single head rescued from a clump that rotted. It sets fertile seed and I have about a dozen seedlings needing potting on.

I showed a photograph of these plants when they first flowered last year and it created some interest. Now they are again in flower. These were obtained as large seedlings when Cactology closed a couple of years ago. I got a number of interesting plants at that time and wished I had got more. These ...

A couple more Alan Craig plants in flower today. AWC502 looks close to napina ssp. napina to me, and AWC 791 maybe more like napina ssp. glabrescens, but I'm open to alternative names. Both are very slow growing with a lot more below ground than above.