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...Turbinicarpus jauernigii that is:

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Do you count that as a very early spring flower then, Vic ?
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Trouble is Ian the plants don't know what season it is these days;)
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I think this one flowers right through winter in warmer climates, certainly well into winter.
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Wow, what a lovely dark-bodied cactus - very nice Vic.
My darkest plant is an aubergine coloured variety of Discocactus horstii:

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Those horstii are beauties Iain, nice spination(tu)

This Ariocarpus fissuratus is looking almost black at the moment

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