Wacky Wednesday featuring nine red cactus flowers
Our Echinopsis ‘Johnson Hybrid’ just had a nonuplet of flowers. I was hoping they'd open two or three at a time so the entire show would last a little longer, but no, all nine opened on the same day. By the afternoon on the second day, the flowers were all done. So much concentrated beauty in such a short span of time!
I took the photos above at 7:30 am when this area was still in the shade.
Same scene in the early afternoon:
I have one more echinopsis that hasn't flowered yet...
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I took the photos above at 7:30 am when this area was still in the shade.
Same scene in the early afternoon:
I have one more echinopsis that hasn't flowered yet...
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Pretty spectacular! Your photos made me realize that I have the same cactus tho it was sold to me as a Trichocereus with white blooms. It bloomed with the same eye-popping red flower just last week.
ReplyDeleteFor some inexplicable reason, Trichocereus has been lumped into Echinopsis.
DeleteI hope you weren't disappointed when your Trichocereus had red flowers instead of white!
It was supposed to be a Big Bertha, so it was a shock to see the red. But it is a gorgeous plant. And I can still get a Big Bertha. Just should see it in bloom to make sure.
DeleteI guess that much drama is hard to sustain for long! I've noticed that my Echinopsis oxygona blooms also last only a single day.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous shade of red! The close-up of the flowers reminds me of some early-season herbaceous hybrid peonies -- the cupped blooms, satiny glossiness of the petals, and the two-toned effect of the stamens. Some of them aren't in bloom much longer than the cactus, tbh. What pollinates these? Looks as if it would be a magnet for hummingbirds.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting but I have never seen a hummingbird on one of my Echinopsis or Trich flowers. Lots of bees though!
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