Lobivia schieliana

[Acid John]

Lobivia schieliana looking a strange washy red in the Sun.

[fero]

Wow great spines and lovely flowers

[Mike P]

The label on this plant says the same but the spines are different.....

[Phil_SK]

And slightly different again on mine.

There is an unpublished varietal name doing the rounds for John's plant, unguispina.

[ralphrmartin]

And mine is different again. This is an old Pic. The plant is now about 20cm tall.

[Nick_G]

Here are mine:

a white spined clone. This could be the same clone as Mike's by the look of it

a golden spined Ralf Hillmann clone just starting to bud

and a 2 year old var.quiabayensis with a WR number but anything this far removed from the original collection could have been crossed with who knows what over the years

[Phil_SK]

My quiabayensis is Lau 1004, probably propagated vegetatively from a habitat plant.

[Nick_G]

I just looked at the label of my Ralf Hillmann clone. It's RH444/1 from Quiabaya so presumably quiabayensis. It flowered last year but I don't remember the flower colour, I'll pay more attention this year.