Neoporteria sociabilis?

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Kees
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Neoporteria sociabilis?

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This plant is being sold as a 30 years old specimen of Neoporteria sociabilis.
Price is good, I am tempted.
I cannot find very much on this species so I wonder whether it is correctly named. What do you think?
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Re: Neoporteria sociabilis?

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It doesn't look how I'd expect N. sociabilis to look. Or when I'd expect it to start flowering. I'd call that Eriosyce subgibbosa, although that covers a multitude of sins.
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Re: Neoporteria sociabilis?

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N. sociabilis looks nothing like that, the plant in the picture looks like it is from the taltalensis / paucicostatus group.But as Iann says it could be subgibbosa. ( Eriosyce/Neoporteria is a minefield)
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