Xerophyte

Description

Delaetia woutersianaSN|16083]]SN|16083]] cv. Thin Petas is an odd (monstrous) cultivars with very fine petals, cut into shreds. The flowers look quite different, but nice and bi-coloured, yellow and orange-red. Similar mutant having thin petals are found in other cactus species species (see

Note

The name Delaetia woutersianaSN|16083]]SN|16083]] is not accepted by botanists that treat it as synonym of Eriosyce taltalensis subs. paucicostataSN|2363]]SN|2363]], but it still has a value for a collector because they identify plants with particular characters.

Flowers

Diurnal, radial, about 2 cm in diameter opening widely, yellow with orange/red throats. Petals long, very fine, shred-like, from narrow yellow bases; upper parts orange-red, edges entire, tips entire and pointed. Filaments yellow at bases, yellow above, anthers abortive. Style pink-orange with pink stigma lobes.

Blooming Season

It may flower at any time during the warmer months of the year if adequate water is provided and each flower lasts for one or two days only.

Spines

Dark-brown soon turning grey, thin bristly and slightly tortuous.

Ribs

About 13 strongly tuberculated.

Stem

Roundish, grey-green, with finely dotted epidermis, apex often very wooly.

Areoles

Large, round to somewhat elongated with white woolliness.