Culture plant of Discocactus ferricola
Photo and description Piet van der Laken
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Discocactus
ferricola HU195
BUINING & BREDEROO in K.u.a.S. page 2-5
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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.
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The plant makes many offsets and the epidermis is
in the period of growth gleamy; in winter the epidermis can have
a reddish colour.
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
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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
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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.
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
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