Who ate all the pies - Lophophora

[Tina]

Some plants don't appreciate a good drink.
My Lophophora fricci was looking lovely until I got a bit heavy handed with the watering can, I have just turned it round so I can't see the split, at least lophs are fast growers.

[DaveW]

Don't worry Tina. I have split them in the past almost to the crown and within about two years or so the split disappeared down the base. Whilst Lophophora's don't seem to gain size fast they do grow quicker than people think since they "concertina" at the base.

I was given one somebody had used double strength insecticide on and burnt all the epidermis, but in a couple of years or so it was pristine again all the scotched part disappearing to the bark at the base.

The funny thing with cacti splitting due to taking up excess water is I have never known one rot because of it and obviously Lophophora's don't have the pronounced ribs other cacti do to expand and contract by.

[habanerocat]

Is this also a fricii, though not as well groomed as yours?
Bought as a williamsii but it doesn't offset and grow flat like my other williamsii.
It also has white flowers.

[DaveW]

Looks like Lophophora diffusa? Not sure either Tina's or yours is L. fricii since that has a reddish flower. though flower colours can be variable.

http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... ora_fricii

Left to right. L. williamsii, L. fricii, L. diffusa.

Amount of wool on the bodies varies within the same species.

[Tina]

Looks like a williamsii but diffusa has white flowers for me, its more to do with the body colours, my fricci is a lime green colour.
Williamsii has a darken green colour

[Tina]

Here is a photo I found on my phone, left is a loph williamsii crest, right is a no ID crest- maybe diffusa but seems to be a dwarf form, but you can see a definite colour difference.
Anybody seen this form of crest, its very unusual as its small, fast growing & does produce aerial roots whilst growing on the graft, again something that is untypical.

[DaveW]

I had in the back of my mind there was a white flowered form of L. friccii therefore looked it up and it appears similar to Tina's if you scroll right down the link below.

"This white flowering variety of L. fricii is known for having a peculiar yellowish epidermis, and can be found southwest of Viesca growing more or less solitary and running up open slopes."

https://magicactus.com/description.html

I think I had one come as L. fricii too.

[habanerocat]

What does diffusa mean?
I remember looking it up before but can't remember or find it now.

[Tony R]

What does diffusa mean?
I remember looking it up before but can't remember or find it now.

diffusus Lat., unevenly or differently formed, unlike what is usual; definition (2) from 'Eggli and Newton':
for the low, flat, ill-defined tubercles of the plant bodies (Lophophora diffusa)