I bought this in May 2020 from Abbey Brook nursery. The label said Cleistocactus aureaspina? ex CIC
Any ideas what it is?
I bought it as I wanted an aureaspina for hybridising but this year it flowered for the first time and this happened...
I actually removed the first flower a few weeks ago thinking it was malformed but then realised that this was it after I removed it!Cleistocactus???
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Re: Cleistocactus???
Could be an unusual clone of what it is labelled as.
The flower looks perfectly "fertilisable" (by moths? hummers?).
The CIC reference needs tracing.
The flower looks perfectly "fertilisable" (by moths? hummers?).
The CIC reference needs tracing.
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Re: Cleistocactus???
That looks like Cleistocactus brookeae, not Hildewinteria aureispina (=C. winteri).
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Re: Cleistocactus???
Agreed, the flower does, but Cleistocactus brookeae is erect, not lax.Minime8484 wrote: ↑Thu May 19, 2022 8:54 pm That looks like Cleistocactus brookeae, not Hildewinteria aureispina (=C. winteri).
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Re: Cleistocactus???
Personally I would email Brian @ Abbey Brook and see if he can give you anymore information about it
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Re: Cleistocactus???
Does the label say CIC? Or G.C?edds wrote: ↑Thu May 19, 2022 7:12 pm I bought this in May 2020 from Abbey Brook nursery. The label said Cleistocactus aureaspina? ex CIC
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I bought it as I wanted an aureaspina for hybridising but this year it flowered for the first time and this happened...
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I actually removed the first flower a few weeks ago thinking it was malformed but then realised that this was it after I removed it!
Any ideas what it is?
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Re: Cleistocactus???
Yes, I think GC is what this is meant to say. C. brookeae has a distinctive almost 90 degree dog-leg to its flower when viewed side-on. Could we get another photo in profile? The vulpis-cauda form (or subspecies) has pendant stems.
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Re: Cleistocactus???
Will take some more photos tomorrow and a photo of the label. The plant's in my office. It looks a lot like some of the photos on the web of brookeae ssp. vulpis cauda but then there seems to be a wide range of photos!
It is definitely not like the colademononis or flower I was expecting from an aureaspina and it develops in a different way too with a very different bud.
It is definitely not like the colademononis or flower I was expecting from an aureaspina and it develops in a different way too with a very different bud.
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Re: Cleistocactus???
It looks like one of the many Hildewintera hybrids that are about.
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Re: Cleistocactus???
Writing labels here, if I write "ex" it means that I have collected the seed from whatever comes after the "ex" (could be a place, could be a plant).
Maybe a similar principle?
Maybe a similar principle?