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Lobivia maximiliana
var. westii KK437
Long
curved yellow spines.
Very eye-catching rainbow flowers
red, yellow, white & fuchsia !
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Cultivation: It is a summer grower
species that offers no cultivation
difficulties. Water regularly in summer (but do not
overwater ) needs good drainage and very porous soil, keep rather
dry in winter.
Feed with a high potassium
fertilizer in summer.
It is quite frost resistant if kept dry (hardy to -12° C).
Need a bright exposure, full sun
or half shade in summer.
Propagation: Direct sow after last frost, offsets.
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Family:
Cactaceae (Cactus
Family)
Echinopsis maximiliana subsp. westii
(Hutchison) G. D. Rowley 1982 Currently accepted
Scientific name:
Echinopsis maximiliana Heyder ex A. Dietrich 1846
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Conservation status: Listed in
CITES appendix 2.
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Synonyms:
- Echinopsis maximiliana Heyder ex
A. Dietrich 1846
- Lobivia maximiliana (Heyder ex A.
Dietrich) Backeberg 1937
- Lobivia caespitosa Britton & Rose
1922
- Echinopsis maximiliana subsp. caespitosa
(Britton & Rose) G. D. Rowley 1982
- Lobivia hermanniana Backeberg
1933
- Lobivia westii Hutchison 1954
- Echinopsis maximiliana subsp. westii
(Hutchison) G. D. Rowley 1982
- Lobivia charazanensis Cárdenas
1957
- Lobivia cariquinensis Cárdenas
1959
- Lobivia pseudocariquinensis
Cárdenas 1961
- Lobivia miniatiflora F. Ritter
1963
- Lobivia cruciaureispina Knize
1969
- Lobivia sicuaniensis Rausch 1971
- Lobivia intermedia Rausch 1971
- Echinopsis pentlandii var maximiliana
Lem. 1860
- Echinopsis tricolor A. G. Z. 1848
- Lobivia pentlandii var maximiliana
Backbg 1951
- Lobivia lauramarca Rauh a Backbg.,
Descr. Cact. Nov. 1956/28
- Lobivia corbula (Herrera) Britton
& Rose 1922
- Lobivia maximiliana var. corbula
(Herrera) Rausch Lobivia 1975
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 Photo of conspecific taxa,
varieties, forms an cultivars of Lobivia (Echinopsis) maximiliana.
(This taxon has lots of synonyms (like
most Lobivia) whit several controversial varieties and subspecies):
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