4 May 2008
Shades of pink
Posted by Stuart under: Cacti .
One of the nice things about having several plants of the same species is the fact that it makes it easy to see variability between individual plants.
Five of my Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele were in flower yesterday, and as you can see, the plant top right has much more strongly-striped petals than any of the others, whereas the second plant down on the left has greater separation between the petals.
I pollinated most of these plants between one another, and also attempted a couple of crosses that may or may not produce anything of worth: krainzianus x pseudomacrochele, and schwarzii x pseudomacrochele.
