Lachy
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Number of posts: 715
Location: Langwarrin
Registration date: 2008-04-05
 | | Subject: Re: What am I? (ID required) Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:05 pm | |
| Beautiful, just beautiful. I've got a few buds on mine, but yours is pretty special I have to say.
That's some fairly aggressive spination happening there... Is this plant being grown under particularly bright light or in full sun? |
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lewis
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Number of posts: 863
Location: Melbourne
Registration date: 2008-05-07
| | Subject: Re: What am I? (ID required) Sun Nov 09, 2008 12:21 pm | |
| that confirms my id  i echo Lachy.. beautiful, just beautiful. can't you tell.. that gymno is just asking for more friends from her genus  |
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CactusPolecat
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Number of posts: 245
Location: Tassie
Registration date: 2008-10-06
| | Subject: Re: What am I? (ID required) Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:25 pm | |
| Lewis is right, Gymnocalycium monvillei is what it is alright.     I've seen it for sale down here tagged as Gymno. multiflexosum, a name I do not think is valid. CP |
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Lachy
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Number of posts: 715
Location: Langwarrin
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| | Subject: Re: What am I? (ID required) Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:30 pm | |
| | Quote: | | I've seen it for sale down here tagged as Gymno. multiflexosum, a name I do not think is valid. |
Ahh yes, that rings bells. Tell me, why do you reckon so many plants are sold under names that are completely invalid, if not just made up on the spot? |
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lewis
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Location: Melbourne
Registration date: 2008-05-07
| | Subject: Re: What am I? (ID required) Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:40 pm | |
| | Lachy wrote: | | Quote: | | I've seen it for sale down here tagged as Gymno. multiflexosum, a name I do not think is valid. |
Ahh yes, that rings bells. Tell me, why do you reckon so many plants are sold under names that are completely invalid, if not just made up on the spot? |
lol. i too have seen it labelled as G.multiflexosum before. this is not valid, never existed and possibly was actually made up on the spot. its also seen labelled as and still referred to as G.multiflorum, which was valid and is now a synonym of G.monvillei. |
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Squil
Number of posts: 34
Location: ACT
Registration date: 2008-05-28
| | Subject: Re: What am I? (ID required) Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:01 am | |
| Damn, I wish the flowers on mine would open up like those pics you posted CactusPoleCat. They are gorgeous. My flowers never seemed to get quite that "open" though. Maybe they did it when I wasn't looking. I've got a smaller G. monvillei in bud but seems to be taking longer to bust open. Hopefully she'll go before the last flowers on the plant in this thread and I can get some fruit. Lachy: I've only had her for around 2 months and don't know her prior growing conditions. All I was told about her last home was that her last year was spent in gross neglect  She now enjoys full sun for most of the afternoon. |
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MichaelCactus
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Number of posts: 293
Location: Bendigo
Registration date: 2008-06-24
| | Subject: Re: What am I? (ID required) Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:17 pm | |
| Awsome Squil! Looks like your doing it right, getting it to bud up like that |
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