A flower at last - but what is it now called?
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:20 pm
After 24 years in my hands I finally have a flower on this plant. I wonder what I have done right this year - or conversely not done right in most of the previous 23 years?
The label says Maihueniopsis albisetescens, but I really don't know much about these plants and I cannot seem to find any info on this name. It came with the number WG 135. Checking on Ralph's database this yielded Wolfgang Gemmrich's Notocactus sellowii, which it obviously is not. Digging further into my records I realised that I obtained it as a very small plant from a visit to W G (Rene) Geissler's nursery, so could it be a W Geissler number? Is it likely to be a reference to a habitat seed collection by him, or just a reference number given to plants in his personal collection? Now it has flowered is it possible to identify what it would be called today? To give it some scale the clump is about 20 cm across (without spines) and 10 cm high (without flower).
The label says Maihueniopsis albisetescens, but I really don't know much about these plants and I cannot seem to find any info on this name. It came with the number WG 135. Checking on Ralph's database this yielded Wolfgang Gemmrich's Notocactus sellowii, which it obviously is not. Digging further into my records I realised that I obtained it as a very small plant from a visit to W G (Rene) Geissler's nursery, so could it be a W Geissler number? Is it likely to be a reference to a habitat seed collection by him, or just a reference number given to plants in his personal collection? Now it has flowered is it possible to identify what it would be called today? To give it some scale the clump is about 20 cm across (without spines) and 10 cm high (without flower).