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Echinocereus subinermis var. ochoterenae (15 seeds)

Echinocereus subinermis var. ochoterenae (15 seeds)

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Echinocereus subinermis is the least armed species of the genus with very short spines and huge yellow blooms.
Habit: At first simple or slowly clumping.
Stem: When young pale green, afterwards bluish green and finally darker green and more or less purplish, 10-20 cm tall, 7 to 9 cm in diameter.
Ribs: 5-11 with narrow furrows between them, broad somewhat sinuate, rounded.
Areoles: Small, slightly woolly, 10-12 mm apart.
Central spines: Usually absent or one (1 to 4 in var. ochoterenae) very short and inconspicuous to up to 2 cm long, thin and porrect.
Spines: Younger plants have short spines while older ones are almost spineless.
Radial spines: 0 to 10 (usually 3 to 8), widely spreading, small, unequal, conic, yellowish, or creamy with a darker tip, deciduous, 1 to 8 mm long (or more).
Flowers: Large and showy up to 10-12 cm in diameter near the stem tips and from second to third areoles on the ribs, perianth segments oblanceolate, acute, cream to bright-yellow delicately sweet-scented, often with some reddish midstripes. Stigma with 10-12 green lobes. Filaments light yellow. Spines of areoles on ovary and flower-tube short, white to brown with scarce white wool.

All seeds are fresh of this season and obtained from my personal collection.

NOTE: cactus seeds could be sown in any season under control environment, however if you wanna go with nature then best time to sow the seeds is early spring/summer )

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