Why not Echinopsis? beauties!!

harry

According to something I read somewhere, echinopsis are not supposed to have any spikes anywhere on the flower. But this one has a hooked spike in the end of every petal. The flowers looks like trichocereus. Without them I still would hesitate. It's too fat for everything else I've seen photos of.

Look here;

1. Echinopsis eyrisii

2. a hybrid from my friend Paula:

3. Seti- echinopsis (now in Echinopsis)

harry

Anyone else?

I'm sorry, Harry, I didn't mean to offend you. It's just that I've spent the last month googling photos of different cactus. I also asked around in different fb-groups and got one suggestion; it might be echinopsis oxygona. I eye-balled the photos of the spiky ones and noticed they bloomed from the top, had different flowers, and different colour on the spikes. (Mine are black-red-yellow-red-black, and you bet that's something I'm proud of and won't overlook). And when I found one with the perfect combinations to match mine (exept for colour of the spikes of course), it was like 10 cm...

I just want the name so I can learn more about it.

Yes. But I won't bite that sour apple until I need to. Lets look at other alternatives for the heck of it.

Just saw that oxygona flowers could last over two nights and have a sweet sent, just like mine. At least I don't have to spend any more time labeling it.

There is at least one Lobivia which has a long floral tube. Its body shape also indicates this may be a possibility. I would also, OTOH, question your citation where you read this information. I myself did not know the detail you wrote about when you said it wasn't an Echinopsis ( I would have guessed it it one), but there's a lot of that.

I agree with harry. Maybe yours has just had different growing conditions also.

I got the info from Plantae.se, a swedish internet flora, through a link from Wikipedia. In lousy translation "Flower pipe and hypanthium often have thin scales and wool, but never any spikes."

I through Lobivia was smaller with different flowers?