Plant IDs

[Adamchadwick]

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.

[Pattock]

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.

[ralphrmartin]

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

[juster]

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!

[habanerocat]

That Notocactus will certainly cause you problems.
Could be ottonis or concinnus also.

[Paul in Essex]

Was the cat OK?

[rodsmith]

Was the cat OK?

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!

[ralphrmartin]

I don't think its Notoactus ottonis or concinnus - they both have rather weaker, flexible, spines,

[Phil_SK]

For 3, Echinopsis oxygona is the oldest name for this.

[ralphrmartin]

As far as I can see, Echinopsis tubiflora is recognised as a species in its own right, and is not lumped into E. oxygona.