Echinocereus reichenbachii

	*Echinocereus reichenbachii*	CACTUS ART NURSERY Cultivation and Mail Sale of Cacti and Succulents.

Flowers are intense pink, beautiful, abundant, scented, 5-7 cm long.

	Cultivation: It is sensitive to overwatering (rot prone) needs a very good drainage to avoid rotting, but requires more moisture than true desert cacti to grow and produce flowers, Keep drier and cool in winter. Need full sun. It is very cold resistant from -10° to -25° C (depending on clones) or less for short periods of time. It is a fine plant for a rock garden or container, contrasts well with agaves, yuccas, and low-growing flowering plants. Propagation: Seeds, also can be grown from cutting as it slowly branches from the base;
Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of E. reichembachii: *E. reichenbachii* *E. reichenbachii subsp. armatus* *E. reichenbachii var. albertii* *E. reichembachii var. baileyi* *E. reichembachii var. bayilei "albispinus"* *E. reichembachii var. baylei "brunispinus"* *E. reichenbachii subsp. fitchii* *E. reichenbachii subsp. perbellus* E. reichenbachii "melanocentrus"

Family: Cactaceae (Cactus Family)

The taxonomic and geographic boundaries among the segregate species or infraspecific taxa of Echinocereus reichenbachii remain nebulous and controversial. In no place do pure populations exist sympatrically, and all taxa appear completely interfertile.