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Parodia maassii
is a very variable species with dense
strong and curved spination,
often yellow or amber coloured.
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Description: Solitary or clumping.
This species is very variable.
Stem: The plant presents extended spherical stem mid-green to
intense green color, of 15 cm. wide, with the apical part densely
covered with white wool.
Ribs: 13- 21 chinned and arranged in spiral.
Areoles: Big and woolly ate first, but they become naked with
age.
Spines: Curved, dense and variably colored.
Radial spines: 8-10 (or more) Usually yellowish or amber at first
and white later, 5-10 mm. long, opened to the outside and a little
curved inwards.
Central spines: 1-4 (or more) strong, measuring between 3
and 7 cm. They are yellow in the upper part of the plant and they go
upwards. In the older parts they become clear yellow and they go
downwards.
Flowers: Funnel-shaped, large coppery-yellow or orange, but they
can be also carmine or red with orange center. 3 (or more) cm across.
Blooming season: Spring and summer, they usually appear one by
one in succession. |
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Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and
cultivars of plants belonging to the
Parodia maassii
complex
(This
Taxon
has lots of synonyms
(like most Parodia) whit several controversial varieties and subspecies):
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Family:
Cactaceae (Cactus
Family)
Conservation status: Listed in
CITES appendix 2.
Scientific name: Parodia maassii (masii or massii) ((Heese)
A. Berger
Kakteen (Berger) 344, 1929
Origin: It is native to
Southern Bolivia and
Northern Argentina.
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Synonyms:
- Echinocactus maasii
Heese
- Malacocarpus maassii
- Bolivicactus maassii
- Parodia maassii v. albescens
F. Ritter,
Succulenta (Netherlands): 179. 1963, 1963
- Parodia maassii v. auricolor
- Parodia maassii v.
carminatiflora F. Ritter,
Succulenta (Netherlands): 179. 1963, 1963
- Parodia maassii v. commutans
(F. Ritter) Donald & Rowley
- Parodia maassii v. commutans
maxima (F. Ritter) Don. & Rowley
- Parodia maassii v. intermedia
F. Ritter,
Succulenta (Netherlands): 179. 1963, 1963
- Parodia maassii v. multispina
Parodia maassii v. nigrispina Y. Ito,
The Cactaceae: 453, without type, 1981
- Parodia maassii v. rectispina
- Parodia maassii v. rubrispina
Y. Ito,
The Cactaceae: 453, without type, 1981
- Parodia maassii v. shaferi
F. Ritter,
Succulenta (Netherlands): 179. 1963, 1963
- Parodia maassii v.
subterranea (F. Ritter) Krainz
- Parodia thieleana
- Parodia mendeziana
- Parodia lamprospina
- Parodia koehresiana
- Parodia
knizei
- Parodia haageana
- Parodia escayachensis
(Vaupel) Backeb
= Echinocactus escayachensis Vaupel
- Parodia otaviana
Cárdenas
- Parodia suprema
F.Ritter
- Parodia haageana
- Parodia castanea
- Parodia camargensis
- Parodia bermejoensis
Brandt
- Parodia belliata
- Parodia obtusa var. atochana
- Parodia obtusa ssp. atochana,
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Cultivation: Water these plants moderately
but regularly
and fertilize with a low nitrogen
fertilizer every 6 to 8 weeks from midspring to late summer. This plant
should remain dry at other times except for a quick, periodic misting on
warmer days in late winter. Watering Needs: Regular water in
summer. Keep rather dry in winter, rot easily if the substrate is wet
and cold, tends to lose its roots in winter.
Can tolerate light frost (-1C°)
This species grows better with partial
shade.
If your climate is warm enough to grow this plant outside, be sure that
soil is well drained and sun if full, but with protection from strong
mid-day rays.
Propagation: By
Seeds. The seed of this plant are extremely
small and must be sown on the surface of the germination substrate (not
buried!!) But the seedlings after germination are so minuscule and
delicate that it quite problematic to keep them alive. So for this
species it is usually used the
baggy germination technique (in a sterilized pot hermetically closed
in a plastic sachet |
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