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Echinopsis oxygona
Ok, this is going to be a more emotional description: This is my cactus which i own now for allmost 10 years. It reproduces like weed but never bloomed. But this year conditions seemed to fit and last week a blossom formed. The closed shot is from July, 6th afternoon, the open shots are from July 7th morning, around 9:30. By 12:30 it already started to close the blossoms and wrinkeld. But anyway: I am happy to have been lucky enough to watch it bloom. Still i don't know its name, please help. I suppose it's some ferocactus, the blossom is about 30cm long and 9ish cm wide. Update: hmm, suggestions are, that it is a Pygmaeocereus...
Oh my goodness I think you have it! It seems to fit lily cactus perfectly! Congrats. What a beauty!
google-ing around lead me to the easteer lily cactus. let me know, what you think of it guys
the shape and and relative size of the blosson fits, but the colour is rather pink-ish than the described white
for the last ten years it only started to form a blossom but never finished. so yes, i am lucky.
In the wikipedia article it says "These species generally do not reaching more than 4 inches high..." but i have an offspring that is 8 to 10 inches. are there some species, that can in fact be bigger?
I'm actually thinking you probably have a Pygmaeocereus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmaeocere...
Beautiful!!!
What a beautiful plant! And imagine, some of these plants only bloom perhaps once a year and you go to see it -- AND photograph it! How exciting is that!
Spotted on Jul 7, 2013
Submitted on Jul 7, 2013
