Gynmocalycium mazanense v hossei

A young G mazanense v hossei, or just call it hossei. Darker skin than some of the descriptions I have seen and just coming into bud. I like the long spines.

June 2015 update - here is the flower:

 

 

Gymnocalycium denudatum cv Jan Suba





 

JULY 2015

 

Assumed the flower would be pink - wrong!

 

 

 

 

MAY 2015

 

New in for 2015, G denudatum cv Jan Suba. Dendatum's come from Brazil. Jan Suba is a hybrid with G baldianum. I like the tangled curled spines.

Gymnocalycium berchtii

Here is G berchtii looking particularly deflated - come back in a few weeks and we will see if it puffs up again once the watering starts.

And here it is all puffed up.

Gymnocalycium cordobense Quilino

Welcome to the 2015 growing season. It has been a slow cold start to spring in the UK this year so as the gymnos are in an unheated greenhouse they must stay bone dry until we can be sure of no more frost. I like it when a dry gymno goes flat so I will post a couple of the flattest.

July 15 update: here it is with buds

Gymnocalycium tillianum

A young Gymnocalycium tillianum with it's first bright red flower. I think they had the reddest flower of all gymnos. I also like the wavy spines and the dark green body.

Gymnocalycium schickendantzii WP89

Look - here is a fun thing with Gymnocalycium schickendantzii - two schickendantziis brought from the same place on the same day. One turns out green body with white flowers, the other more grey body with pink in the flowers.

The best thing about Gymnocalycium schickendantzii  is that the flowers come out way on the sides not the middle.

Gymnocalycium vatteri

MAY 2017

Slow to grow but still flowering

JULY 2014

I like Gymnocalycium vatteri because of it's grey green body but most of all because of it's single claw spine. It would appear that it is a form of G ochoterenae but as far as I am concerned G vatteri has one spine, ones that don't aren't and this is what I am going to call it.