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Austrian "wallflowers"
Hello,I want to show you Austrian "wallflowers":Opuntia phaeacanthaDelosperma lineare
Best keep my wife away from this thread. Susan stumbled whilst weeding last week and landed with her knee in Opuntia phaeacantha The bigger spines came out OK but a lot of glochids are still embedded...Of course the plant has now been renamed "YOUR ****ing cactus". I must change the label to reflect this.
Quote from: Darren on June 03, 2011, 09:54:33 AMBest keep my wife away from this thread. Susan stumbled whilst weeding last week and landed with her knee in Opuntia phaeacantha The bigger spines came out OK but a lot of glochids are still embedded...Of course the plant has now been renamed "YOUR ****ing cactus". I must change the label to reflect this.Susan's grasp of nomenclature appears a little wayward Darren ... !
Glad to report I didn't do any damage to it.
Though Sulcorebutia is sunk into Rebutia depending on which classification you believe. In fact Cliff - this makes me realise that cactus nomenclature is a total mystery to me as well, so Susan's name might well be as correct as any other...
Thanks Kris & Cohan, The plant which first inspired me to grow cacti was a wonderful plant of S tarabucoensis I saw in flower at a show. It had bicoloured red & yellow flowers and was spectacular.I don't grow any mammillaria but I do like those you pictured Kris - especially leuthii. I am told this one is difficult to grow from seed?After seeing your pictures of Ariocarpus last year Kris I now have a few to try so wish me luck..
Dear friends, thanks for all the beautiful pictures and comments about our pricklyand fat friens. All my hardy cactii flower as profusely like never before, probablyan effect of the hot and dry spring we had till now.Escobaria leeii and sneedii from the nursery trade grow like mad, but this smalland very slow growing seedling from a friend keeps on flowering with very big and showy flowers.Chamaecereus silvestrii spends the winter time in my unheated alpine house,maybethe low tempratures support flowering.Pterocactus tuberosus grows all the year in the open ground, but never flowered soprofusely like this spring.