Weird and Wonderful Flowers
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Please respect all forum members opinions and if you can't make a civil reply, don't reply!
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ralphrmartin
- BCSS Research Committee Chairman
- Posts: 6070
- https://www.behance.net/kuchnie-warszawa
- Joined: 11 Jan 2007
- Branch: None
- Country: United Kingdom
- Role within the BCSS: Chairman - Research
- Location: Pwllheli
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Weird and Wonderful Flowers
Mainly ascleps, plus one Lobivia
- Attachments
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- Lobivia 'Stern von Lorsch'
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- Ceropegia sandersonii
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- Ceropegia radicans
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- Ceropegia x rothii
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- Ceropegia stapeliformis
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- Orbea pulchella
Ralph Martin
https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/cacti.html
Members visiting the Llyn Peninsula are welcome to visit my collection.
Swaps and sales at https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/forsale.php
My Field Number Database is at https://www.fieldnos.bcss.org.uk
https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/cacti.html
Members visiting the Llyn Peninsula are welcome to visit my collection.
Swaps and sales at https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/forsale.php
My Field Number Database is at https://www.fieldnos.bcss.org.uk
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Eric Williams
- BCSS Member
- Posts: 2321
- Joined: 13 Feb 2009
- Branch: SOUTH WALES
- Country: UK
Re: Weird and Wonderful Flowers
Nice Ralph, weird and wonderful,also amazing. Thanks
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DaveW
- BCSS Member
- Posts: 8159
- Joined: 08 Jul 2007
- Branch: NOTTINGHAM
- Country: UK
- Role within the BCSS: Branch President
- Location: Nottingham
Re: Weird and Wonderful Flowers
Yes those first monstrose ray like flowers on the Lobivia can occur on many cacti. Backeberg even wrongly erected a genus for a plant with similar flowers = Delaetia woutersiana, which was merely a monstrose flowered Eriosyce. I even once raised a seedling of Eriosyce from I think it was E. paucicostata or similar seed that produced flowers just like that. Illiffe calls it "thin petals" in the link below but that is Backebergs "true" Delaetia woutersiana.
http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... hin_Petals
lliffe unfortunately then confuses the issue and mixes up another plant that went around as Neoporteria woutersiana at the same time, simply because it was named after the same person, mistakenly calling it Delaetia woutersiana also, but it has perfectly normal flowers as in the link below.
http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... outersiana
I think there is a picture in one of the books of an Echinopsis with similar flowers and the monstrose Echinopsis 'Haku-Jo' can sometimes produce them as well as almost normal ones.
http://echinopsis.eu/displayimage.php?pid=4349
http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... hin_Petals
lliffe unfortunately then confuses the issue and mixes up another plant that went around as Neoporteria woutersiana at the same time, simply because it was named after the same person, mistakenly calling it Delaetia woutersiana also, but it has perfectly normal flowers as in the link below.
http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... outersiana
I think there is a picture in one of the books of an Echinopsis with similar flowers and the monstrose Echinopsis 'Haku-Jo' can sometimes produce them as well as almost normal ones.
http://echinopsis.eu/displayimage.php?pid=4349
Nottingham Branch BCSS. Joined the then NCSS in 1961, Membership number 11944. Cactus only collection.