A Few Of Mine That Have Flowered This Year

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A Few Of Mine That Have Flowered This Year

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Good to see your flowers. I love the small Gymnocalycium with the enormous buds.
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Nice flowerss, DragonFish. Some Gymno's flower when quite small.
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Thanks, Yeah the smaller ones are only 4cm Gymnos are in my top 3 of cacti still building my collection of them only got 12 species :smile:
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Beautiful flowers Dragonfish :-)
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Here's the Gymnocalycium Calochlorum finally flowered :smile:

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The flowers really dwarf the plant, they are pretty, too. The spines aren't bad either.
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Liz M wrote:The flowers really dwarf the plant, they are pretty, too. The spines aren't bad either.
It always amazes me at just how big they get its a pity they don't last, through its just a bonus for me as i like the look of the plants even more so :smile:
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