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L. Lobivia tiegeliana forma cristata

Description:  Dark green ribs with flat 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 ) keep rather dry in winter. Feed with a high potassium fertilizer  in summer. It is quite frost resistant if kept dry (hardy to  -5° C).  Need a bright exposure, full sun or half shade in summer.

Propagation: Grafting, cutting.

 

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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

Conspecific taxa, varieties, forms an cultivars:

• Lobivia tiegeliana
• Lobivia tiegeliana forma cristata
• Lobivia cinnabarina (Lobivia tiegeliana v. cinnabarina)
• Lobivia draxleriana (Lobivia tiegeliana v. cinnabarina)

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