Unknown Species

Post by **daiv** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:03 am

I have many pictures of cacti that I have not been able to get a positive ID on yet. Please be sure to visit my Unknown Species page.http://www.cactiguide.com/unknown I do not have them all listed on this page. I will add them as others come off the list.

Thanks!

belzog_99 · Post by **belzog_99** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 3:48 am

I am not the greatest at this but #1 looks alot like Melocactus curvispinus ssp. dawsonii.

Post by **daiv** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:13 am

I've added some new "unknowns" here. -One with an interesting history.

sonia · Post by **sonia** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:57 am

The one above kinda looks like "Cabeca de Frade" (melocactus bahiensis), although it could be a melocactus neryi as well.

The one below is hard to guess because of the angle but the flowers look like the ones of Mammillaria mercadensis (syn. Mammillaria berkiana).

gunhat · Post by **gunhat** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:36 pm

My guess is that this is Pygmaeocereus bylesianus

Gunnar

cactusbutt · Post by **cactusbutt** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:01 am

number 123 looks like Notocactus horstii
i think

sonia · Post by **sonia** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 4:12 am

I think Daiv's South American unknown is a Neochilenia.

Specifically some Neochilenia paucicostata subspecies (Eriosyce taltalensis ssp. paucicostata).

This is a Neochilenia paucicostata var roja:

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