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Re: Flowering Copiapoas

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More beautiful plants, Benjy!

Hope you don't mind me posting a few from the past 2 weeks...

C. haseltonia 'tenabrosa'
Atleast i think it's what Ritter described as tenabrosa. Grows more columnar and offsets like mad.
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C. feidleriana
First time this one has flowered for me.
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C. mollicula
It's popped out several pups near the top, not sure how it's going to look when they get bigger...
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C. barquitensis
A little top heavy ;)
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Re: Flowering Copiapoas

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CoronaCactus wrote:Hope you don't mind me posting a few from the past 2 weeks..
Not at all, I hope some more join in.
I 'really' like the mollicula you have there :smile:
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A couple of mystery Copiapoas and a scruffy Mollicula that in no way matches Darryl's plant!

This large plant is labelled Copiapoa Napina - not a name I've come across before.
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This has flowered for the first time. From a packet of mixed Copiapoa seeds, I'm unsure as to what it is.
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Here's the scruffy Mollicula, one of the last of some hundreds of Copiapoas that have reached the end of the flowering season. Time to remove all those dead flowers!
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Re: Flowering Copiapoas

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Your large plant looks like a coquimbana form from just north of La Serena.

The second plant is C. bridgesii ( i.e. north of Chanaral)
bridgesii is still a sound name to use as a 'handle', to distinguish them from C. marginata further south.

I remove dead flowers all year Peter, as soon as they're dry and come away easily, and I also keep an eye on fruits too, as soon as the top splits to show the black glossy seeds I pop the fruit up and off with tweezers, I think this quick removal makes the plants flower more often.

I've noted on krainziana from the day of flowering to the ripening/splitting open of the fruit - was just 22 days.
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Thanks Benjy, I appreciate the help.

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Great plants, Peter!
Your mollicula does show a resemblance to mine, chalk it up to variability.
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Re: Flowering Copiapoas

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Nice Copiapoas here. The ID of the San Ramon C. taltalensis (rupestris) is of special interest to me as I've had two of these without any real ID, but for another iffy Knize name it came with. I've always felt the red in the flowers was a nod to rupestris, but it didn't look like the type of which I'm most familiar. This one is about 25-30 years old.

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