Xerophyte

Description

The typical Echinopsis pentlandiiSN|10595]]SN|10595]], better known as Lobivia pentlandiiSN|10598]]SN|10598]], is a pretty little species, with a dark green body and flowers coming in wide range of colours. The beautiful crested form is highly priced for its sculptural shape and easy flowering habit. Older crested plant can reach a considerable size (up to 30 cm tall and in diameter).

Flowers

Diurnal, funnel shaped, variously coloured (Pink to reddish-brown, orange or yellow with a usual clearer centre ), up to 6 cm long, 5 cm diameter. Tube relatively stout up to 1 cm in diameter. Inner perianth-segments, narrowly obovate, abruptly acute, spreading. Scales on ovary and flower-tube lanceolate with short-hairs in their axils.

Blooming Season

Blooms are produced in spring and remain open for about three days.

Spines

Variable, all radial or sometime with one central, often difficult to distinguish as centrals and radials, brownish. Usually less than 3 cm long, but sometime longer (depending on clones and growing conditions).

Ribs

Sarp edged, broken into long acute, hatchet-shaped, tubercles, separated by acute intervals.

Stem

Fan-shaped 4-6 cm thick, dark-green from which spines emerge.

Areoles

Felted about less than 2 cm apart.