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Culture plant of Discocactus ferricola
Photo and description
Piet van der Laken

Discocactus ferricola HU195

  • Description

BUINING & BREDEROO in K.u.a.S. page 2-5

  • Short plant description of HU195 in culture

Diameter of the culture plant is ca. 7 cm. 
Plant height without cephalium  5 cm. 
The colour of the epidermis is dark green. 
Number of ribs ca. 15. 
Number of areoles is 5 to 6 on plants with cephalium.
The shape of the areoles is round. 
The number of radial spines is 5 to 7. 
The length of the spines is 1 á 1,5 cm. 
The shape of the spines is slightly recurved backwards and the colour is dark brown. 
The colour of the cephalium is light brown. 
The colour of the fruit is white. 
The position of the stigma is at the primary stamens. 
 

  • Remarks

The plant makes many offsets and the epidermis is in the period of growth gleamy; in winter  the epidermis can have a reddish colour.

  • Literature

SUCCULENTA 1976 page 66
K.u.a.S. 1975 page 2-5 
DISCOCACTUS 1980 page 66.

 

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Habitat photo of Discocactus ferricola 
field number HU195
Photo: Albert Buining

  • Habitat

Corumba in Mato Grosso do Sul. At the Bolivian border near Cero Mutun.

Corumba in Mato Grosso Do Sul, Brazil
Guia Rodoviario do Brasil, C-2


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Culture plant of Discocactus ferricola forma KK1053
Photo and description
Piet van der Laken

  • KK1053 - Discocactus ferricola forma

Diameter of the culture plant is 10 cm, with the offsets included 20 cm.
Plant height without the cephalium 7 cm. 
The colour of the epidermis is  dark green. 
Number of ribs is 13. 
Number of areoles is 6 on plants with cephalium. 
The shape of the areoles is round. 
The number of radial spines is 7. 
The length of the spines is 1 to 2 cm. 
The shape of the curved spines is less bent towards the plant as on Discocactus HU195. The colour of the spines is red/brown. 
The colour of the somewhat sunken and little cephalium is cream/brown. The cephalium has red/brown  bristly spines. 
The colour of the fruit is cream. 
The position of the stigma is at the primary stamens.

  • Remarks

Fa. Köhres imported  years ago this variety from Fa Knize , Peru with this field number. This plant is cultivated from seeds of the same importplants