neue frostharte Opuntien-Hammer!

[Fireblader]

Hallo Gemeinde!

Dieses Jahr haben meine ersten Züchtungen an frostharten Feigenkakteen
geblüht, und ich möchte einmal meine persönlichen Favouriten vorstellen.3
Alle 5jährig, und kleinwüchsig. Das große Kraut habe ich schon lange aus-
gemistet.
Die Namen stehen jeweils dabei. Werde bei ganz tollen Sorten baldmöglichst
für Vermehrung sorgen.
Ganz stolz bin ich auf die basilaris Hybride mit den gezackten Blüten und der
irre Farbbrillanz.

[schimanski]

Wahnsinn. Da hast du ja echt eine sehr schöne Blütenformen hinbekommen.
Die Staubbeutelfarbe der Nana ist auch irre. Hystricina 'Hof' ist auch echt irre. Die sind ja völlig eben! Allerdings habe die eigentliche Sorte selber nicht. Weiß also nicht wie sie normal aussieht.
Mach nur weiter so. Dann weiß ich bald nicht mehr wohin mit meinen Pflanzen.

[Ingrid]

Oh ja! Die Hystricina 'Hof' find ich auch ganz toll!
Ich glaube, ich muss mir ein größeres Auto leihen, wenn ich mal zu dir fahre ...

[Fireblader]

..hier ein Bild der "normalen" Hyb. "Hof". Auch sehr schöne Blüte.
Ich finde aber meine Folgezüchtung auch sehr gelungen. Das Farbspiel
ist doch ungewöhnlich und auch die tellerförmige weite Blütenform ist
mal was anderes....

[schimanski]

Also da muss ich sagen, dass mir deine neue 'Hof' besser gefällt. Bei der "alten" finde ich die Blütenfarbe etwas zu blass. Auch gefällt mir die tellerförmige Blüte einfach unglaublich gut.
Allerdings ist die Kombination aus starker, weißer Bedornung und gelber Blüte auch nicht zu verachten. Im Zusammenspiel mit dunkelsprossigen und -dornigen Opus wie die O. rhodantha 'Uhlig' gibt das schöne Kontraste.

[tephro]

Hallo Michael,

wirklich schöne Züchtungen hast du da.

[Yücel]

Hallo!

Wirklich ganz tolle Blüten!

Das macht Mut mal selber wild zu kreuzen.

[Christa]

Hallo,

das sind ja tolle Blüten. Da könnte man echt neidisch werden.

LG Christa

[Martin Tversted]

First of all, these are really stunning plants!

The other thing is that the so called O basilaris nana is no basilaris at all but instead O aurea. You can see it on the stigma that is green in aurea but are never green in true basilaris.

These are often confused. Another example is the hardy form from Zion National Park, it is often called one of the most cold/wet hardy basilaris forms, but the explanation is that it is no basilaris, it has green stigma and are in fact O aurea.
http://www.northern-nursery.dk/images/O ... is%203.JPG
Note that I still had the species listed as basilaris when I made the page two years ago. Therefore the name on the picture.

And you can check the two forms in the front page of my website:
http://www.northern-nursery.dk/

Here is the real thing:
http://www.delange.org/CactusBeaverTail/Dsc00053.jpg

White or yellowish stigma.

Martin

[Fireblader]

Dear Martin!
Thank´s for your statement about basilaris. I think, all the plants who was
descript as "basilaris" in the cacti-nurserys are only spineless forms of
O.polyacantha v.erinacea (utahensis), comes from Utah.
There are very hardy and robust plants, grows many years outside of
my greenhouse and bring each year very rich flowers (look at my pic-
ture, 22 flowers on one pad!!). Mrs. Ivana Richter write a very interest
article in the magazine kaktusy 2004 special 2.
You say, it dont exist yellow colours of flower on basilaris-forms. What do
you think about O.basilaris v.humistrata?
I take a few pictures of basilaris-forms, i have in my collection

Op.polyacantha v.erinacea (utahensis) spineless form, who was in the
nurserys descripted as basilaris-hybrid

typical "Beaver-tail" Opuntia basilaris comes from Mohave 2100m

One of my basilaris Favourites v.brachyclada, very small clusters,
wonderfull flowers

[Fireblader]

here a few pictures of another basilaris species I have in culture

Op.basilaris v.aurea allways spineless. What is the right name of this
plant?

Op.basilaris v.humistrata

This is my Op."aurea" I have many years in culture. Very small pads,
build compact clusters, will loose the pads easy. What are the right name
of this plant?

[kahey]

Hallo Michael,
da sind Dir wirklich einige schöne Neuzüchtungen gelungen vor allen weil diese auch kleinwüchsig sind.
Ich habe mir 6 davon notiert werde mich im Frühjahr bei Dir melden.
Gruß
Dieter

[Martin Tversted]

First of all, let me come with a few points to consider before I ansver. I dont think anyone is an opuntia expert unless they have seen a lot of habitat plants. I have not been in opuntia-land.
the reason is that most opuntioid species are extreamly viable in habitat. You can watch some of the mistakes Backeberg made with all his numerious andean species. Many are based on plants he received and not because of extensive field work. When I sow, ex M glomerata, I usual get at least 3 different forms from the same location. Simply because the species are extreamly viable and if you look to these forms one by one, you could easily be fooled to think they are 3 different species.

When that is said, I have seen enough opuntia to have an opinion, but I also know that it is much easier to say what it is not, than to say what it is!

Basilaris and its forms or subspecies have white to yellowish stigmata and magenta to white flowers.

Brachyclada and humistrata blend into each other in habitat and if I remember correctly brachyclada are much higher in the mts. They could be simply each end of variation of the same species/subspecies. Your brachyclada seems to fit the description very well but your humistrata are not an basilaris form and not humistrata at all. Do you have any locality on the plant?

O basilaris nana = O aurea.

Your O humistrata could also be O aurea.

O aurea is close to polyacantha in wich it shares many similarities. But it is distinct.

Your O aurea is more tricky? Maybe a hybrid with fragilis?

Another close species is the one distributed as O rutila. This name is schientific invalid and a resent attempt to call it O debreczyi or something like that doesnt seem to have gain popularity. Maybe because the americans cannot pronounce the name? However, that is probably a good species and it shares similarities with both polyacantha and aurea. It comes in flower colours from red to yellow.
I have an article about it here:
http://www.northern-nursery.dk/Vinterh% ... aktus2.pdf

Sorry, in danish.

Martin

[Martin Tversted]

Talking about basilaris, here is the form called longiareolata, with huge long pads. But the flower is stunning:



Martin

[Fireblader]

Hello Martin!
I understand your statement, but it´s very complicated to identify some
plants in culture. Most of them have only imagination names.
Here a better picture of the culture plant who was describt as O.basilaris
v.aurea. It´s a very robust plant who can be grow easily outside and
bring very rich flowers too. The fruit are felshy(!-not as typical basilaris)
The flowers are self-fertile. I dont´know what sort it can be.
The other plant of the picture was the plant who was descript as O.
basilaris v.nana. One of the sorts with the most flowers (8-10 each pad).
Very robust too.....correct name?
I grow and observe more as 25 Years prickly pears in culture, and have
all the sparse literature who was in circulate.
You say, yellow flower dont exist on basilaris, that´s not right.
W.Hubert EARLY descript in his book "Cati of the Southwest" 1980
O.basilaris v.aurea with yellow-gold flowers, later cerise. The yellow-gold
flowers have yellow filaments topped with golden anthers, yellow style
with GREEN(!) stigma lobes. The cerise flowers has cerise filaments
and yellow anthers, yellow style with green stigma lobes.
I think, the plant who was here in culture descript as O.basilaris v.
humistrata will be the true O.basilaris v.aurea/ Op.aurea


a better picture of the cv. "Op.basilaris v.aurea"

The plant who was in culture descript as Op.basilaris v.nana
build the pads only at the base of the old pads- typical for O.basilaris.
I never know other species who do that too.

a plant, I become as Op.basilaris v.woodbury, think it will be the same
plant/form as my Op.basilaris v.nana