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I have a name
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 10:02 pm
by iann
This little plant has been anonymous since it appeared in a pot of unrelated seedlings.
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I wasn't even sure it was a Copiapoa although it seemed likely. Now that at least is definite. Being so green and so ribbed at quite a young age only leaves a couple of possibilities, and it definitely isn't C. solaris. So the fat hairless flower fits nicely for C. coquimbana, although that is still the most widespread and perhaps most variable species, with many named variations.
Re: I have a name
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:04 am
by majcka
So, when we will have an official baptism?
Re: I have a name
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 9:27 am
by iann
majcka wrote:So, when we will have an official baptism?
I'll put it out in the next available rain shower. Expected in September
Re: I have a name
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 10:24 am
by majcka
iann wrote:majcka wrote:So, when we will have an official baptism?
I'll put it out in the next available rain shower. Expected in September
Really. And I thought England is a rainy country.
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Re: I have a name
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:29 pm
by vlani
coquimbiana seedlings I have are all dark-brown, except for one position. Like C. dura. But they all are still too small to show their real self.
Re: I have a name
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 4:36 pm
by CoronaCactus
Nice plant! C. humilis
C. montana could be a possibility, although usually with all black spines.
Re: I have a name
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 8:15 pm
by iann
vlani wrote:coquimbiana seedlings I have are all dark-brown, except for one position. Like C. dura. But they all are still too small to show their real self.
Dark brown? That's because they're really Copiapoa humilis
Maybe there are brown ones, it isn't a species I've grown from seed.
I've seen brown C. dura seedlings, although my adult plant is solidly green. C. humilis seedlings seem to come in various shades of brown, sometimes almost a matt black, and flower very young.
Copiapoa montana is a plant I don't understand. Or at least a name I don't understand. It seems to be used for widely differing and unrelated plants in cultivation, and it isn't at all clear what habitat plants it should apply to. I have this plant as C. montana. Bigger now, but still green, with notched ribs, and wool.
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Re: I have a name
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 7:48 pm
by iann
Well one good reason for my confusion is that plant actually came labelled as C. marginata. I'm fairly sure it isn't C. marginata. Maybe it is C. montana