Opuntia macrorhiza

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Opuntia macrorhiza

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Lovely flower on this one which came from Uhlig.
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Beautiful colour
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Nice one, Mike.
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Think mine came from the same place. Flowered about a month ago. Great colour!
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It's said to be one of the hardiest - do either of you have it outside or have plans to plant it out?
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I do have plans to plant up an outside bed and this along with a number of other sp. and hybrids will be outside with a removable cover for winter.

Currently it is in the rear of the greenhouse that has no winter heating - got done to below zero this year with no trouble.
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Mine is in an unheated greenhouse. The ones I had outside this year were severely sampled by molluscs.
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Phil_SK wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 7:57 pm It's said to be one of the hardiest - do either of you have it outside or have plans to plant it out?
I have two plants of this. It survived -15C this winter and I have it in an unheated greenhouse for quite some years now. I do keep them in the greenhouse during winter, so it stays completely dry. During summer they will go out and get splashed on by the rain. I have been told they might like it outside during winter too, so I am a bit tempting to keep them outside during winter. Maybe then mine will finally flower like the above pictures too...
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