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Golden rat-tail cactus

Cleistocactus winteri

Description:

A bright orange flower on this long stemmed cactus.

Habitat:

Pot plant

1 Species ID Suggestions

Rattail cactus
Aporocactus flagelliformis/ Disocactus flagelliformis Disocactus flagelliformis


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4 Comments

MartinL
MartinL 12 years ago

Thanks for your comments and ID. I'm not that good at the botanical side, especially exotics.

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 12 years ago

martinl, If you checked just the images of A. flagelliformis on Google, you'll see a photo of a plant similar to yours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_tail_ca...

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

Lovely!

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 12 years ago

It's that time of year eh martinl.. nice flower.

MartinL
Spotted by
MartinL

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Dec 15, 2011
Submitted on Dec 22, 2011

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