7 February 2009
Hooray for ugly little plants
Posted by Stuart under: Cacti .
This rather small and unappealing little chap is a plant of Cintia knizei, or, if you prefer to use the moniker bestowed upon it by the New Cactus Lexicon, Rebutia cintia.
I’m sure that’s a lumping that will be split back out again at some point.
Anyway - as I mentioned previously, I was concerned that it had been looking a little peaky, but its flower bud is developing at a reasonable rate. I’d be interested to know when this plant usually flowers for other people, as this is the first one I’ve got through a winter into the flowering season - when does yours bloom?
For scale, this one is in a 2.5″ pot, so is only about half an inch across.