Honorary small Opuntia

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Honorary small Opuntia

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Always like the intense yellowness of these flowers.
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I think my O. pycnantha is coming into bud :razz:
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Annoyingly mine isn’t this year.
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Mike P » Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:19 pm
Annoyingly mine isn’t this year.

Sorry Mike I thought that was your pycnantha, so I take it that is O. aciculata then. :oops:
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Image above was two years ago.
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RAYWOODBRIDGE wrote: Sun Jun 19, 2022 11:11 pm I think my O. pycnantha is coming into bud :razz:
Yes, indeed, this is my favourite 'non-small' opuntia, so definitely an honorary member of the club.
For me, the buds usually come on the pads which appeared the previous year, so from today's photo below I have seven flowers to look forward to in the coming days/weeks:

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Note how the buds appear red (from the outer petals) until they open to reveal the yellow!

And, remember, if you remove the 'fruits' soon after, before they have dried up too much, then you can root them down to produce new segments to, again, remove and root down.

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by Mike P » Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:52 am

Image above was two years ago.
ooops :stup:
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by Tony R » Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:49 pm
And, remember, if you remove the 'fruits' soon after, before they have dried up too much, then you can root them down to produce new segments to, again, remove and root down.

I did not know you could do that with pycnantha I have done that with O. pachypus ( Austrocylindro. )
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Just the first flower opening today ....
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Couldn't see inside the flower as my step-up stool was not around!
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So, this afternoon, I moved the plant onto the floor to see the flower(s) better:
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