Hi!
here in italy is still winter and these are some of our pereskiopsis graftings, taken under artificial light.
hope you like them:







carlo & daniele

Hi there,
what are the plants that you grafted?

I was wondering the same thing as Cal. Nice and healthy looking though, I might add

Look like Astrophytums, thats a start haha. i guess they are some hybrids/cultivars.?

Yes, they are astrophytum!
The first one is a fukuryu, the second one a kikko koh-yo and the third one is from asterias cv. snow seeds. They are still quite little, we will see how they will develop in the future.

carlo & daniele

Wow, they look interesting.
I look forward to seeing them once they are larger.

Thanks for that - great plants...wanders over to see what he can graft in the heat!!

Yes, keep us updated as to their development.


A slightly OT Q for Aus growers, is it spathulata or velutina we use here for grafting? going by net photos they appear to be the same plant ...? except spathulata is listed as having a red flowers and velutina (now referrable to deguetii) as yellow (unless they vary), but the stuff we have here rarely (if ever-) flowers (unless someone can prove otherwise, i have not seen it flower here),it could be that we might be mis-identifying our stock, unless in fact there is more that one species available, as i have seen one type with long white wool from the areoles- or possibly there are different clones of the same species in cultivation whatever that species is. Added to the fact is that they vary enormously depending on growing conditions. there appears to have been very little study into this genus and there is seemingly little info available about it on the net (other than grafting info!). Also apparently in Europe people use other species like porteri and even some Pereskia.

Real nice grafts




Lewis,

Your right Spathulata and Velutina are Synoymous ! ie the same plant.

I like the old taxonomy best - worry about just trying to grow them :-)

An update of the first and the third photo:





And two new ones:

onzuka kikko x coahuilense kikko



ornatum x fukuryu



carlo & daniele

They look good. I like the ornatum x

They're looking good.
I'm yet to get any fukuryu or kikko varieties but but this kind of work makes me want to get my hands onto them.

I agree with HN, I think the ornatum x fukuryu will look awesome once it's bigger.

How's the Koh-yo going C&D ?