Echinocereus ID please.
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Re: Echinocereus ID please.
Difficult to ascertain the size of the plant - Acifer can grow quite large whereas my Salmdyckianus are on the small side. My first feeling was that the plant is a Coccineus var.
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Re: Echinocereus ID please.
From the length of spines, and comparing the pictures in the book "Echinocereus" by Wolfgang Blum, Michael Lange, Werner Rischer & Jurgen Rutow the nearest match from the long spines is E. acifer. It does not match with E. coccineus. They give the flower as:-
Flower bud blunt woolly.
Flower shape tubular, length 80-100mm, diameter 10-30mm. Flower colour light red/red pink, throat yellow.
Tube length 45-65mm, diameter 7-20mm.
Tube colour reddish. Ovary length 15-20mm, diameter 10-15mm, colour green.
Petals: length 25-35mm, width 3-15mm.
Filaments whitish, pink tips.
Anther colour purple, pollen colour yellow-orange.
Style 70mm long, 1.5-2mm wide, colour whitish-greenish.
Stigma lobes 10, length 8-12mm, colour green.
All this group of Echinocereus are a bit variable in spine length so it is often difficult to relate them to illustrations.
DaveW
Flower bud blunt woolly.
Flower shape tubular, length 80-100mm, diameter 10-30mm. Flower colour light red/red pink, throat yellow.
Tube length 45-65mm, diameter 7-20mm.
Tube colour reddish. Ovary length 15-20mm, diameter 10-15mm, colour green.
Petals: length 25-35mm, width 3-15mm.
Filaments whitish, pink tips.
Anther colour purple, pollen colour yellow-orange.
Style 70mm long, 1.5-2mm wide, colour whitish-greenish.
Stigma lobes 10, length 8-12mm, colour green.
All this group of Echinocereus are a bit variable in spine length so it is often difficult to relate them to illustrations.
DaveW
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Re: Echinocereus ID please.
Those colours are unbelievable! W~here can i get cactus of these species?
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Re: Echinocereus ID please.
Most nurserymen should have some Mike. Not sure what I have as cuttings, I will have to have a look. I can probably find you a cutting of E. procumbens, which probably has the largest flower of the Echinocerei at about 5" across fully open. See:-
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image ... umbens.JPG
Send me a PM with your address.
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image ... umbens.JPG
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Re: Echinocereus ID please.
Aside from the flower colour this looks not unlike a plant I have labelled Echinocereus roemeri.
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Re: Echinocereus ID please.
I would definitely go with scheeri, here's my scheerii v koehresii:
[IMG]http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r309 ... 80copy.jpg[/IMG]
and scheerii v gentry
[IMG]http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r309 ... 39copy.jpg[/IMG]
beautiful plants by the way!
Alex
[IMG]http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r309 ... 80copy.jpg[/IMG]
and scheerii v gentry
[IMG]http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r309 ... 39copy.jpg[/IMG]
beautiful plants by the way!
Alex
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