Oh the anticipation....
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Oh the anticipation....
I've been waiting for 6 yrs for this to flower again..
Growing anything I can keep alive :-)
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Re: Oh the anticipation....
What is it? Matucana?
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Re: Oh the anticipation....
If it's an Oroya, you're doing better than I am! My buds dried up yet again... I've never managed to flower an Oroya.
Phil Crewe, BCSS 38143. Mostly S. American cacti, esp. Lobivia, Sulcorebutia and little Opuntia
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Re: Oh the anticipation....
It's oroya subocculta . I brought it from Southfields in 2012 and this is the first time it's flowered . I can only think that it was the very cold winter that has brought it on.
Growing anything I can keep alive :-)
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Re: Oh the anticipation....
Worth the wait
Growing anything I can keep alive :-)
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Re: Oh the anticipation....
Definitely. Very nice indeed.AntonyC wrote:Worth the wait...
Rod Smith
Growing a mixed collection of cacti & other succulents; mainly smaller species with a current emphasis on lithops & conophytum.
Growing a mixed collection of cacti & other succulents; mainly smaller species with a current emphasis on lithops & conophytum.
Re: Oh the anticipation....
The Oroya that regularly flowers for me came under the name O. gibbosa years ago and I have repropagated it from my own seed. It can start flowering at 3 - 4cm diameter. It is supposedly a synonym of O. peruviana, but plants under that name, O. neoperuviana or O. borchersii just get large and never flower. It is another example of a taxon which needs recognition from a gardener's point of view, but just gets lumped by people practicing botany. It is likely that AntonyC's plant is the same element of the genus.