23 June 2008
Frailea flower
Posted by Stuart under: Cacti .
As I’ve mentioned previously, thanks to advice from Angie on the BCSS forum and in her article published in the BCSS journal CactusWorld, I’ve been watering my fraileas more. And, hey presto! It works.
For the first time ever, I have a Frailea phaeodisca with a flower bud on it; normally, for me, they go straight to seed cleistogamously. I’m putting this change of behaviour down to my attempt at treating them as the seasonal bog-plants that they are in habitat. It just goes to show that our plants really respond if we give them the conditions that they’ve evolved for.
One Comment so far...
Aiyana Says:
25 June 2008 at 4:47 am.
Interesting. I haven’t seen a Frailea flower before this.
Aiyana