A matured Astrophytum asterias cv super kabuto was in flower.
The original super kabuto was round type but this one shows a special shape. It is not a starfish shape but rib bottoms are pushed up. I assume various types of asterias were mixed in history.
The current size is 14 cm in diameter.
A discocactus horstii was in flower yesterday.
I had many grafted ones before but all of them had gone.
The cactus on photo is a rooted off-set removed from a grafted one.
The cactus is quite small which is in a 6.5 cm square pot. White flowers release a nice scent.
4 of Astrophytum hybrids, capricorne x red flowering asterias were in flower yesterday.
I can say flower colour is red enough but the body is very similar to asterias.
They are 5~7 cm in diameter.
Yesterday was very hot. Several asterias wer in flower in the afternoon.
The photo is one of them, a miracle kabuto, 19 cm in diameter.
The body is a starfish shape which is same as the original miracle kabuto.
A turbinicarpus alonsoi was in flower yesterday. I propagated this one from seed.
I could not see so many cacti flowers lately.
The cactus has a small body which is in 6.5 cm square pot.
A matured Gymnocalycium spegazzinii v loricatum was in flower yesterday.
I bought seeds and sowed in 2003. Loricatum has thick and short spines.
The current size is 15 cm in diameter.
A gymnocalycium v spegazzinii v cardenasianum f super spines was in flower.
I bought seeds and sowed in 2006. The current size is 15 cm in diameter.
Thick spines limit flower to open freely.
