Blooming Cactus are Addicting

[mikethecactusguy]

This is the first season in 20 years that I have had cactus blooming like this. Its amazing and addicting.
The first few flowers never quit opened up on this guy. But this one did

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[greenknight]

Great looking plants/flowers. The third one isn't Echinopsis eyriesii, though, it's a Parodia/Notocactus.

[ElieEstephane]

Would you look at that lobivia!

[mikethecactusguy]

Thank you greenknight. Some earlier identifications were not correct since they had not flowered yet.
What is so neat about cactus flowers is that they don't look real sometimes.

[mikethecactusguy]

And then off course they close up at night.
The light is from our patio light. This was 9 pm last night

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[mikethecactusguy]

Here is one more. This bloomed today

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[greenknight]

Now that I can see it better, I can give you a definite ID on that "eyriesii" - Parodia mammulosa subs. submammulosa (syn Notocactus submamulosus).

http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... bmammulosa

[DaveW]

First is Gymnocalycium baldianum.

Second looks like Notocactus (Parodia) roseoluteus from the flower.

http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... oseoluteus

Notocactus rutilans has a similar flower but the body spination is different since it belongs to the N. muller-melchersii group and not the N. mamulosus group.

http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... s_rutilans

Third is as Spence identified above.

[mikethecactusguy]

The single bloom turning into a double and going for a triple

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This has always grew fruit but never flowers. 10 years.

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This flowers every year. But this year it started early with many more

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