Spent Blooms
Parodia rutilans
Besides a few late blooming Cereus and Cleistocactus, the cacti are all done for the year. Here we see the result – spent blooms. With any luck those will follow up with some seed-filled fruit. We did have bees around all summer, so there should be some seed coming. Or we could have manually pollinated the flowers ourselves, but it didn’t happen so we are at the mercy of the bees.
Thank you, bees.
