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Gymnocalycium
guanchinense
P226 Cuesta Miranda 1500m
Dark
green-reddishbody and robust beautiful flower
from June to autumn.
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 Description:
This is a solitary
geophytes plant with a swollen underground root system. The plant
body has significant chin humps below
the large woolly and peculiar areoles.
The plants typically got a dark greenish red-violet-brown body colour.
Stem: Up to
15 cm in diameter, dark green to
brown flattened with wavy ribs.
Spines: The spines are pale brown extremely curved
and long.
Flowers: Near the apex, 70mm in length and
60mm in diameter
Flowering time: Blooms appear
recurrently from June to autumn.
Cultivation: It is a summer
grower species that offers no cultivation
difficulties. Water regularly in summer (but do not overwater )
keep rather dry in winter.
Feed with a high
potassium fertilizer in summer.
It is quite frost resistant if kept dry (hardy to -10° C)
Sun Exposure: Light shade.
Propagation: Direct sow after
last frost.(seldom produces
offsets) |
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Family:
Cactaceae (Cactus
Family) |
Gymnocalycium guanchinense
Schutz 1947
In: Zpravy Ceskoslovenske kaktusarske spolecnosti 2:
21, 1947 = mazanense
Scientific name: Gymnocalycium hossei
(F. Haage) A.W.Will
Origin: Argentina (La Rioja)
Conservation status: Listed in
CITES appendix 2.
Synonyms:
- Echinocactus hossii F. Haage
- Echinocactus mazanensis Backeb.
- Gymnocalycium mazanense (Backeb.) Backeb.
- Echinocactus rhodantherus Boed.
- Gymnocalycium rhodantherum (Boed.) Backeb.
- Gymnocalycium nidulans Fric ex Backeb.
- Gymnocalycium weissianum Backeb.
- Gymnocalycium guanchinense var. robustius F. Ritter
nom. inval. In:
Katalog H. Winter: 14, 1962
- Gymnocalycium guanchinense var. tinogastaense F.
Ritter nom. inval. In:
Kakteen in Suedamerika 2: 477,1980
G. guanchinense has been named after habitat,
Argentina, Prov. La Rioja, Cuesta Guachin
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