Cactus Flowers! It's Spring!
The Echinocereus grandifloras are in full bloom this weekend, so you know it’s spring out here at the Cactus Jungle.
We call this one “Amber Peach”
Rikki insists this one is “Tropical Pink”
I named this one “White Lightning”
In case you were wondering, these are all hybrids. They are intergenic hybrids between Echinopsis and Echinocereus. You may see these on various websites and at certain nurseries under various and sundry names. Some call them Trichocereus Hybrids or Lobivia Hybrids or Tricho-Lobivia Hybrids, however current taxonomy puts all Trichocereus and Lobivias into Echinopsis.
You may also see in certain quarters where they insist on particular cultivar names. However we have gotten our original parent plants for these hybrids from the original hybridizer and he does not name them himself. So we are free to call them by our own cultivar names. If you have better names for them than we’ve come up with, we’re happy to take suggestions!
