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This is a rare natural hybrid from California (Ferocactus peninsulae x
Ferocactus
rectispinus) and is very hard to find a good size plant in
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Description: Small
barrel cactus, usually solitary..
Stem: Spherical, green to pale bluish with a yellowish woolly
depressed apex, 21 cm tall and 30 cm in diameter, as it ages it will
become cylindrical an can reach 1m in height and 35 cm in diameter
Ribs: 15 to 21, sharp and with deep furrows about 3 cm highly
Areoles: The areoles are upward elonged with a short white felt
covers; they stand on protruding bump on the ribs.
Spines: About 8, of which one central upright and very strong,
basally enlarged,
abaxilly flatted +/- hooked. The colour is purplish at the base and
reddish yellow on the tips. Other 5 spines less strong of same colour
and slightly curved at the point, are regularly arranged with the
smallest of which at the base of the areole; there are also two very
thin whitish lateral spine and an upper rudimentary aciculate spine
thinner and shorter.
Flowers: 5 cm long 6 cm in diameter, yellow-orange to brick–red
with darker midline, they come from the wooly apex of the plants.
Blooming season: Between at the end of July and beginning of
September.
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Family:
Cactaceae (Cactus
Family) Ferocactus × californicus
(Cels ex Labouret) Borg
Natural hybrid (Ferocactus peninsulae x Ferocactus
rectispinus)
Scientific name: Ferocactus
californicus (Monville) Borg,
Published in: Cacti, 235, 1937
Basionym: Echinocactus californicus Monville 1846
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Origin: California
Conservation status: Listed in
CITES appendix 2.
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Synonyms:
- Echinocactus viridiscens,
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Flowers are very showy 5 cm long 6 cm in
diameter, yellow-orange to brick-red with darker midline.
Cultivation: Prefers
full sun, Avoid frost.
Propagation:
Seeds are the only way of
reproducing. |
Photo of
conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars
of plants belonging to the
Ferocactus peninsulae/wislizenii
complex
(This
Taxon has various synonyms ( like many other cacti)
whit several controversial varieties and subspecies and comprises a
multitude of different forms, but where each form is linked to others by
populations of plants with intermediate characteristics):
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