Plant IDs
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Plant IDs
Dear All, I am posting for the 1st time since joining the Society and I am afraid it will reflect badly on me! I am asking for help to identify some of my beginners collection of plants which over the winter were first knocked about by what I think was flooding of my cold frame and later - if you can believe it - a cat falling in and finding it very hard to get out. Several of the plants were damaged and I have had to pot up what I could rescue. Thanks for any help you can give me.
Re: Plant IDs
We're here to help! Well, I'm not - because I know almost nothing about cacti. I can say those are definitely cacti.
Don't be embarassed to ask. The Society is really here to help everyone from novice to expert. One day you might be the one to know something nobody else does.
Perhaps you need a one-way cat-door, just for exiting.
Don't be embarassed to ask. The Society is really here to help everyone from novice to expert. One day you might be the one to know something nobody else does.
Perhaps you need a one-way cat-door, just for exiting.
Asclepiomaniac. Armchair ethnobotanist.
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Occasional, eclectic blogger:
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- ralphrmartin
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Re: Plant IDs
Good luck with your rescue! The Mammillarias should reroot very easily, and I'd expect the others to be OK too,
1 A Notocactus sp., probably Notocactus erythracanthus
2 Mammillaria elongata
3 An Echinopsis sp., possibly E. tubiflora, or perhaps a hybrid.
4 Mammillaria gracilis
Ralph
1 A Notocactus sp., probably Notocactus erythracanthus
2 Mammillaria elongata
3 An Echinopsis sp., possibly E. tubiflora, or perhaps a hybrid.
4 Mammillaria gracilis
Ralph
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Re: Plant IDs
Welcome Adam, you have some nice plants there and the Echinopsis has obviously flowered well. Don't be concerned about asking for advice, that's how we all learn!
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Re: Plant IDs
That Notocactus will certainly cause you problems.
Could be ottonis or concinnus also.
Could be ottonis or concinnus also.
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Re: Plant IDs
Sounds funny but the same thing happened to me aged 13. My fledgling cactus collection was kept in a cold frame and a cat got in one night. There was cat fur over everything. I don't know what happened to the cat!
Rod Smith
Growing a mixed collection of cacti & other succulents; mainly smaller species with a current emphasis on lithops & conophytum.
Growing a mixed collection of cacti & other succulents; mainly smaller species with a current emphasis on lithops & conophytum.
- ralphrmartin
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Re: Plant IDs
I don't think its Notoactus ottonis or concinnus - they both have rather weaker, flexible, spines,
Ralph Martin
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https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/cacti.html
Members visiting the Llyn Peninsula are welcome to visit my collection.
Swaps and sales at https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/forsale.php
My Field Number Database is at https://www.fieldnos.bcss.org.uk
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Re: Plant IDs
For 3, Echinopsis oxygona is the oldest name for this.
Phil Crewe, BCSS 38143. Mostly S. American cacti, esp. Lobivia, Sulcorebutia and little Opuntia
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Re: Plant IDs
As far as I can see, Echinopsis tubiflora is recognised as a species in its own right, and is not lumped into E. oxygona.
Ralph Martin
https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/cacti.html
Members visiting the Llyn Peninsula are welcome to visit my collection.
Swaps and sales at https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/forsale.php
My Field Number Database is at https://www.fieldnos.bcss.org.uk
https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/cacti.html
Members visiting the Llyn Peninsula are welcome to visit my collection.
Swaps and sales at https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/forsale.php
My Field Number Database is at https://www.fieldnos.bcss.org.uk