aka Deutsche Kaiserin
My plant is actively growing at the moment. It is flowering this spring just enough to show me what it can do.
Nopalxochia phyllanthoides
and a different angle
That's gorgeous! I'd love to see a pic of the plant too :-)
-Julie
That is a stunning flower, Ursula. The colors are so deep and lovely. It's almost like a rose unfurling.
Thanks.
Normally the flowers are much more pink. These single flowers are somewhat larger and redder than what the plant produces normally. Usually the plant is covered with flowers in early spring, puts on new growth afterwards and flowers again around mid-summer.
This year it is just growing and giving me single flowers. I don't mind.
Julie,
here is the whole plant
http://www.kammlott.net/outside2005/DSCN7209.jpg
Ursula, are there two types of plants in that pot? At least it seems to me there are 2 different leaf/stem/whatever-you-call-them types .... and one of them I'd sware was an Epi if asked. I think I'll never figure out how to ID these plants LOL
-Julie
Julie
they are all one and the same. The new growth looked like long skinny pencils at first and they are now widening and some even branch out at the end.The old matured growth looks just like any other Epi. Which it is!
But how can it be an Epiphyllum if the Genus name is Nopalxochia? Maybe I'm being dense... LOL
Julie, I had to look it up, too. Here's a short link with good information on it:
http://www.plantoftheweek.org/week122.shtml
Julie
you are correct.
I was using the "Epiphyllum" / flattened stem ( edited ) in the general sense, it is a related genus.
and here is an older link to this plant
http://www.kammlott.net/May2003.html
This message was edited Jun 14, 2005 11:26 AM
This is marvellous! Nopalxochia............out of a 1936 book, Taylor's Ency. of gdng.........it is listed that the Epis are true cacti......these old names, in Zygocacti, are not used really any more....interesting! This beauty is gorgeous, RUK...........Elaine
Ursula, thanks for that link to more of your beauties! I'm in love with your Masd. herradurae!!!! What a COOL plant! :-) If it needs daily spraying with rain water, I know I'd kill it if I had it...no rain water here for half the year.
Nice specimen!
I have this one, too (althought it's nowhere *near* the size of yours!) and have yet to see it bloom.
I received it as a *very* tiny (about 3"!) cutting 3 or so years ago. It was a GW trade, and I was the only person that the 'trader' didn't 'stiff', so I got lucky!
Many epiphytic cacti are known for their variable growth, Julie. My cutting started out as the flat growth, grew the 'pencil like' shoots, and from those has grown a flush of the flat growths again.
Hope mine 'grows up' to be like yours, Ursula!
Nan, I was simply confused by Ursula saying it was an "Epi"....as I was thinking the genus "Epiphyllum"....not the term "epiphytic".
My fault Julie, I was lumping....
nope. MY fault for having tunnel vision and not realizing you may have been referring to something else :-) I'm a bit slow on the uptake now and then....but I mean well :-)
oOpS!
What I was referring to when stating that many of them have variable growth was your asking Ursula if there were 2 different plants in the pot.
Seems that many of any epiphytic cacti/jungle cacti have that variable/alternating (so to speak) growth......large flat alternating to long pencil-like.
Several of my Rhipsalis do that too.
See, I told you I was slow on the uptake ROTFL! :-D
Oh, me too....you're not alone, LOL!!
Oh, my goodness! That is definitely going on my 'wanted' list. Thanks for sharing another beauty, Ursula.
kaperc, you are welcome!
So pretty Ursula! Love the little light pink cup shape. :-)