Mike P wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:17 pm Found this flowering in the heat this afternoon. To be honest I hadn’t even noticed it had buds…91F1AC4E-16F6-4F64-B5E2-33DB6C6896CA.jpeg

That's another sneaky thing about Cactus .... they hide the buds until you leave home.

Great looking flowers though

They have a 6th sense .... they know when you are away from home .... and they get at the Tequila etc .... that's why they are fully open on your return.

Beautiful colour

Pattock wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 3:22 pm Quite a fat wick, if so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Vo0QzPUZM

Pattock wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:26 pm The colour of the flower appears to be a warm yellow, such as the light cast by a candle. There are worse descriptors for yellow.

The opening flower resembles a candle flame was what I read ... but still in daylight

This hybrid is diurnal rather than nocturnal. Is the name appropriate?

That is one gorgeous hybrid. Well done.

Unfortunately, I don't have details of where this item comes from. Martin Lowry's confirmation of Graham Charles's system. Provenance codes_.jpg Thanks Mike I have Graham's book Cacti and Succulents: An Illustrated Guide to the Plants and Their Cultivation. (Autographed of course). He gives a simil...