A reason to grow Sulcorebutias

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A reason to grow Sulcorebutias

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They don't look like this every day, but often enough.
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Agreed, this one came as Sulcorebutia bicolor
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That is a cracker Ian - the pot bulge suggests a good taproot too. It was a plant very like Peter's 'bicolor' that got me into cacti in the first place when I saw one in flower on a display by (probably) Croston cacti years ago.

Mine are just getting started. Here is heliosoides today:
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Fantastic plants. Love those bicolor ones especially!
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Lovely plants, mine are also enjoying the sun
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and one of my favourites S. langeri
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I think I need to get some of these in more different colours, there's such a variety.
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Interestingly, when in Bolivia, I saw one species (I forget which) covering an area the size of a decent garden, with say several hundred plants in it. About 95% were one colour (purple? - cant remember which way round it was), 5% were another colour (yellow?) and literally 2 or 3 plants out of the whole had bicoloured flowers with a bit of both colours in them. Unsurprisingly, ones like the latter seem to have been selectively brought back - you see far more fancy coloured Sulcos in cultivation than in nature.
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These plants look great in flower but no doubt stay looking interesting all year around.
One final plus mark for S.langeri- I find the flowers seem to stay open long after the sun has gone in.
So you don't miss them even if you are away during the day...
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This is a more unusual white flowered Sulcorebutia langeri, originally collected by Willi Gertel
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Nice one, Ross.
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