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Parodia punae is a very nice specie also without flowers.
 

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Family: Cactaceae (Cactus Family)

Parodia punae Cardenas 1970

Accepted scientific name: Parodia ocampoi Cárdenas

Origin: Mizque, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Habitat:  Grows on the south-east and extremely hot, steep wall of a canyon with slate rock outcroppings.

Conservation status: Listed in CITES appendix 2.

Etymology: The genus Parodia has been named after Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi an Argentine botanist specialized in herbaceous indigene flora. The specific name comes from Dr. Puna of Cochabamba who discovered the plant.

Synonyms

  • Parodia exquisita
  • Parodia gibbulosa
  • Parodia zecheri
  • Parodia minuta
  • Parodia elachista
  • Parodia copavilquensis
  • Parodia compressa
  • Parodia augustinii
  • Parodia zecheri ssp. elachista
  • Parodia gibbulosoides
  • Parodia gibbulosoides

Description: Parodia puna is a very floriferous plant, solitary or forming cushion up to 40 cm in diameter.
Stem:
Globose or shortly cylindrical, dark green with a very woolly apex, up to 8 cm tall and 7 cm in diameter.
Ribs: About 17, acute with short tubercles, straight or slightly spiralling.
Areoles: Large, round with white to greyish wool
that fade away as they age..
Radial spines: 8-9, reddish, light brow to dull yellow, becoming grey as they age 4-10 mm long.
Central spine: 1 to 4 stronger,
of which the upper three are straight  with a reddish tip, while the lower one is more long and strong, hooked often only 4-5 mm long.
Flowers: Orange-red , 2 cm in diameter. Pericarpel and floral tube with abundant white wool and brown bristles.
The filaments bear cream-yellowish anthers. Stile white-yellowish.
Blooming season: Late summer through autumn. Flowers remain open for up to six days..
 

 


Cultivation:  Needs regular water in summer. Keep rather dry in winter, tends to lose its roots in winter. Can tolerate light frost (-1C°)
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 is 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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