This is probably one of the last flowers from my cacti I will show this season. Unless I find some lost photos that I forgot about that is. The blooming season is over and now they just look like green spiky mess until next spring. Some still show one little flower now and then, but I already showed them when they were in full bloom earlier in spring, so I don't see the point of repeating doing it again.
This cactus is native to Bolivia and Argentina and grows on higher elevations among rocks and some small bushes or grasses. It is nit big and never will be. It will produce multiple offshoots though and spread sideways a bit. You can see on the photos that my one already started to do it.
It is small, but it's tough as a rock! It can handle hot days with full sun but also freezing cold temperatures in winter for short periods of time. To survive the winter cold it needs to be kept completely dry though, otherwise it will rot and die in no time!
The flowers are gigantic! One of the biggest from the cacti I own (most Lobivia type has quite big blooms) especially if you compare it to the size of the cactus. The main stem is about 2-3 cm across. The flowers are probably double that.
I also found a little unwarted guest while I was shooting - mealybug! Those little shits attack and can kill a cactus and you don't even know why it dies. Sneaky little ****.
As a bonus another guest, but a very wanted one - my furry quality control assistant :)
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Chamaecereus hybrid | Sulcorebutia Canigueralii | Mammillaria camptotricha | Mammillaria Glassii |
Gymnocalycium baldianum | Mediolobivia mudanensis | Lobivia Arachnacantha | Rebutia hybrid |
Mammillaria Bombycina | Mammillaria Gracilis Snowcap | Mammillaria haageana | Mammillaria backebergiana |
Chamaecereus silvestrii | Mammillaria prolifera | Rebutia Fabrisii var. Aureiflora | Lobivia Wrightiana |
Aylostera Flavistyla FR756 | Parodia concinna | Mammillaria Copper King | Gymnocalycium Bruchii |
Mammillaria backebergiana | Gymnocalycium damsii | Echinopsis subdenudata | Rhipsalis pilocarpa |
Mammillaria Prolifera | Lobivia arachnacantha v. vallegrandensis | Mediolobivia atrovirens | Mammillaria magnimamma |
Sulcorebutia langerii | Sulcorebutia frankiana | Chamaelobivia no ID | Rebutia Albiflora |
Mediolobivia atrovirens var. ritteri | Gymnocalycium damsii var. tucavocense | Notocactus Ottonis | Gymnocalycium Friedrichii |
Turbinicarpus Viereckii | Rebutia neocumingii | Notocactus Rubrigemmatus | Lobivia no ID |
Sulcorebutia albissima | Lobivia arachnacantha II | Notocactus mueller-melchersii | Mammillaria Prolifera |
Aylostera heliosa var. condorensis |
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Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens
All photos and text are my own.
