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  Notocactus fuscus
(Syn: Parodia fusca)
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The flowers are numerous  and very showy, they are yellow with glossy petals and have a dark purple stigma.
 

The stigma is purple

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Buds appear in March

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It is a pretty plant  already without any flowers.


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Family: Cactaceae (Cactus Family)

Conservation status: Listed in CITES Appendix II

Notocactus fuscus F.Ritter
In: Kakteen in Südamerika Band 1: 178-179. 1979

Scientific name: Parodia fusca (F. Ritter) A. Hofacker & P. J. Braun 1998

NOTE: The entire genus Notocactus is currently included into Parodia

Origin:   Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul (Sao Francisco de Assis, Cerro de Tigre, Fazienda Ité, Paradao Itaqui, Barragem do Itu, Passo Novo, Manuel Viana, Itacurubi, Alegrete)

Other Synonyms

  • Notocactus rauschii var. fuscus (RITTER ) N. Gerloff & J. Neduchal 2004
  • Parodia succinea N.P.Taylor 1989
  • Peronocactus fuscus (F.Ritter 1979) Doweld 1999, nom.gen.inval.
  • Ritterocactus fuscus (F.Ritter) Doweld 2000
  • Notocactus fuscus v.longispinus F. Ritter
    In: : Kakteen in Suedamerika, Band 1 : 1799

     

Description: Small solitary cactus.
Stem: Globular, 10-12 cm wide, up to 18 cm tall, apex depressed. Epidermis dark green.
Ribs: 19-26, approx 5-11 mm wide, vertical or spiralling and slightly mammillate.
Areoles: 2-4 mm in diameter, very closely set ( 3-6 mm apart) filled with abundant white wool, especially those near the stem apex.
Radial spines: 10-16 acicular, radiating, yellowish-brown to greyish-white 5 – 14 mm long
Central spines: 4 (or sometimes 2) more robust 2 – 25(-35) mm long forming a cross, dark reddish-violet with a brown base, becomig grey as they age.
Flowers:  Approx 3 cm long and wide
and stand near the top. Yellow or pale yellow, with a typical glossy shine. Sepals thin, the outer ones often red tinged at the tips. Floral tube with small scales, and white wool. Stamens yellow, stigma lobes dark purple.
Blooming season: Sping to summer
Fruit: 18-25 mm long, olive-green turnig reddish at maturity, with 70-90(-200).
Seeds: Dull black, finely tubercled. 0,8 mm long, 1 mm wide, 0,9 mm thick.

 

 


Cultivation: It is easy to grow.  It  prefers a neutral to slightly acidic mineral-based potting mix with plenty of extra grit and feed during the summer.   It likes a warm bright location, does great in partial shade but doesn't like full, hot blazing sun in the central summer month. Can support quite some water during the growing season but pot plants in winter are wet-sensitive and needs to be kept dry  (rots easily if soil is wet and cold) tends to lose its roots in winter. Water Best if watered with rain water. Usually it is recommended to over-winter this plant in a bright and warm greenhouse with at least 8-10° C and rather dry  (it tends to lose its roots and to rot  if the substrate is wet and cold)  but it has proved to tolerate temperatures as low as -5° C for short periods.  

Propagation: Seeds.

 

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