Plant ID please
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- el48tel
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Plant ID please
An identification please.
Endeavouring to grow Aylostera, Echinocereus, Echinopsis, Gymnocalycium, Matucana, Rebutia, and Sulcorebutia. Fallen out of love with Lithops and aggravated by Aeoniums.
Currently being wooed by Haworthia, attempting hybridisation, and enticed by Mesembs.
Currently being wooed by Haworthia, attempting hybridisation, and enticed by Mesembs.
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Re: Plant ID please
Mammillaria elongata which is very variable in flower colour (mostly seen with whitish/yellow flowers) and spine colour.
I have a few that seem to be fairly hardy as well.
I have a few that seem to be fairly hardy as well.
Re: Plant ID please
Mine are a good age and very hardy. I say are and not is for this reason.
I've only ever had the one pot and get two flower colours.
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Re: Plant ID please
I would suggest that yours is Mammillaria microhelia, Fred, which can have pink or yellow flowers.
Diane - member of Kingston branch
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Re: Plant ID please
Agreed. Your pink flowered clone has been known as Mammillaria microheliopsis in the past.
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(Gasteria, Mammillaria, small Opuntia, Cleistocactus and Sempervivum are my current special interests)
Re: Plant ID please
You think it's/ they've had the wrong name for 35+ years?
I knew I should have just called it George
I knew I should have just called it George
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Re: Plant ID please
Yes FredG, I agree that these thicker stemmed relatives of M elongata that you show in your pix are what we used to know as Mamm. microhelia and Mamm. microheliopsis, the differentiation based only on the flower colour in earlier times. This has always been one of my favourite mamms because I first grew it as as schoolboy.
David Neville
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Secretary of Southampton & District Branch. BCSS member since 1977.
Re: Plant ID please
Woo Hoo! I get to print another label
- el48tel
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Re: Plant ID please
I was going to print a label, last evening. I'm so glad I waited.
I see that LLIFLE lists several more synonyms
http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... a_elongata
I see that LLIFLE lists several more synonyms
http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... a_elongata
Endeavouring to grow Aylostera, Echinocereus, Echinopsis, Gymnocalycium, Matucana, Rebutia, and Sulcorebutia. Fallen out of love with Lithops and aggravated by Aeoniums.
Currently being wooed by Haworthia, attempting hybridisation, and enticed by Mesembs.
Currently being wooed by Haworthia, attempting hybridisation, and enticed by Mesembs.