July 2017 - GotM - Echinopsis

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July 2017 - GotM - Echinopsis

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I think there is a paragraph following figure 2 in the July GotM article which shouldn't be there as it refers to Avonia.
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I had a couple of plants in flower last week, one unnamed plant has suffered from my poor cultivation recently but produced four flowers
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three of which opened on the same day (fourth opened next day)
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Also open at the same time was a plant I got from Abbey Brook Cactus Echinopsis calochlora x calorubra
Echinopsis calochlora x calorubra
Echinopsis calochlora x calorubra
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I presume Pseudolobivia qualifies as Echinopsis? Afraid this is a handheld shot in the staging since I never seem to get around to properly photographing it when really in full bloom, since it often has more flowers on than here. Not much of a looker out of flower, but then are most Echinopsis?

Echinopsis (Pseudolobivia) obrepanda ssp. purpurea.
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Echinopsis coronata
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Lobivia subdenudata continues to be a popular choice of garden centres and DIY chains, especially the form with abundant fluff in the areoles, sometimes seen treated as 'fuzzy navel'. Mine came from a garden centre some years ago but didn't do very well for a long time. It is starting to look more healthy and has reached flowering size.
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I have a couple of other plants that are not quite so fluffy. This first one originally came from Ron Wood's Cruck Cottage Cacti in Pickering.
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And another, similar plant, from Harry Middleditch.
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Subdenudata was described for plants found near Entre Ríos in Tarija, Bolivia. There are a few other plants that are quite widespread in cultivation that were found in that area but have spines.
Lau 941 is from Villamontes, around 50 miles east:
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Lau 400, from Entre Ríos, variously seen as "sp. nova" (despite being collected in 1970), E. tapecuana, or the n.n.s E. tapecuana v. tropica or E. tortispina.
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And here's yet another form, claiming to be from Entre Ríos but s.n. It has smaller bodies and slightly longer spines.

The New Cactus Lexicon treated subdenudata as a form of E. ancistrophora but tapecuana (published 1965) as a form of E. pamparuizii (published 1970). I'm inclined to believe that all of these I've shown from Bolivia are the same but subdenudata might be the oldest name.
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Described from the Tucumán - Salta area of Argentina, Lobivia ancistrophora is quite variable too. Here are some:
MN 63 and RH 480, both from near Salta city.
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and a BLMT 449.01 from northern Tucumán.
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Finally, here's a peculiar plant which I recommend getting seed of if you ever place an order with ADBLPS. I managed to get 4 plants to this stage and all are similar, so it comes true. Aymeric calls it 'Tug'. I haven't flowered it yet but the flowers are fairly normal in the photos I've seen.
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