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  • Detail of the cactus flower, a bright pink with more orange-red color at the center, and the outer petals a desaturated pink-red. Petals are rounded and slightly wavy. The filaments are light pink, with cream anthers.
  • Detail of the cactus surface, with tightly-packed mounding round cacti of varying sizes.
  • Large cactus in full bloom with several dozen pink-red long trumpet-shaped flowers
  • A large cactus, round mounding growth form with ribbed cacti and smaller pups densely packed and hanging over the edges. The cactus is in a large brick red pot.
  • A large cactus covered with a few dozen buds that are close to opening, on long stalks.
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Echinopsis hybrid, pink-red bloom

Echinopsis hybrid, pink-red bloom

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Family Cactaceae

Subfamily Cactoideae

Tribe Cereeae

Subtribe Trichocereinae

Genus Echinopsis?

Species x

 

I picked up this cactus from a local Cactus & Succulent Society sale as an unknown variety, half covered with pine-needles and nuggets of desiccated bird poop. I cleaned it up and started caring for it, and got one flower the first year. The second year, I got thirty (I think it's happy?).

Best I can tell, it is an Echinopsis hybrid—if you recognize it give a shout! It looks similar to the cultivar "Temptress" with dark green stems and a pink-red bloom. The flowers have intriguing coloration, saturated in the center petals and then fading in a gradient to a desaturated red color on the outer petals. Petals are rounded with slightly wavy edges.

Like other Echinopsis hybrids the cactus has been a fast grower and quite hardy. It has been happy to overwinter outdoors, though Tucson isn't the best place to test the lower limits on things; I assume it wouldn't appreciate a hard freeze.

Options: a small (1" diameter), medium (2" diameter), or large pup, rooted or unrooted. Note that pups may be lopsided from trying to grow out from under other stems, but this seems to even out fairly quickly once they have their own pot. Secondary pups will begin to develop more rapidly once the plant has been established for a while, with fastest growth in the spring–fall growing season.

 

Growth habit Mounding round cactus surrounded by pups
Size Mound can reach several feet in diameter given time, stems can reach several feet long but skinny if stretching for space
Light Filtered sun, under a tree or shade cloth, or bright indirect light
Water Regular water in spring-summer growing season, allow to dry between waterings; leave dry over winter
Overwintering Hardy to 20°, tolerant of light freezes. No need to overwinter in greenhouse in warmer climates, and a warmer winter may discourage blooms
Flowers Blooms sporadically, usually once or twice a year in the spring
Native to Cultivar (likely South America)
Conservation risk status n/a
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