L. tiegeliana v cinnabarina R513 Iruya, Salta.

 

Description: Small globular-flattened cactus.
Stems: Dark green, spherical up to 15 cm in diameter. It has 20 ribs spirally arranged with raised tubercles between which the areoles appear.
Spines: Arranged like little spiders, brownish, turn greyish eventually.
Flowers: Deep red.

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,  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 (if available)

 

Conspecific taxa, varieties, forms an cultivars:

• Lobivia tiegeliana
• Lobivia tiegeliana v. cinnabarina
• Lobivia tiegeliana forma cristata

Scientific name:  Echinopsis tiegeliana (Wessner) D. R. Hunt 1991

Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Trichocereeae

Origin:  Southern Bolivia, northern Argentina)

Conservation status: Listed in CITES appendix 2.

This taxon has lots of synonyms (like most Lobivia) whit several controversial varieties and subspecies.

Synonyms:

• Echinopsis tiegeliana (Wessner) D. R. Hunt 1991
• Lobivia tiegeliana Wessner 1939
• Hymenorebutia tiegeliana (Wessner) F. Ritter 1980
• Lobivia peclardiana Krainz 1948
• Lobivia pusilla F. Ritter 1966
• Hymenorebutia pusilla (F. Ritter) F. Ritter 1980
• Mediolobivia hirsuttissima Cárdenas 1971
• Lobivia fricii Rasuch 1973
• Echinopsis fricii (Rauch) H. Friedrich 1974