Chiapasia Hybrid in Flower
e6filmuser
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This post features a hybrid I obtained many years ago by pollinating a flower of Chiapasia nelsonii (from the Type Locality) with mixed pollen from my epiphytic hybrids which were flowering at the time. I grew on several seedlings for a number of years but only this one ever flowered. It looks much like its mother. The flower is about the size of my hand.
The first was shot a few days ago with my EM-1, 1/50 f11 ISO 400. The second is one from 2013 with my EP-2 f11 1/180 ISO 400.Both were in bright overcast light, hand-held. I used the Kiron 105mm for both,
Harold
The first was shot a few days ago with my EM-1, 1/50 f11 ISO 400. The second is one from 2013 with my EP-2 f11 1/180 ISO 400.Both were in bright overcast light, hand-held. I used the Kiron 105mm for both,
Harold
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Are these the fragrant night flowering jobs ?
Brian V.
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Thanks, Brian.
Colour means day-flowering. Most terrestrial cacti open only during the warmest hours of the day. Night-flowering species are typically white or cream and are fragrant.
The pink one is slightly fragrant. Next to it, and possibly one of its parents, is an even larger, cup and saucer type of epicactus hybrid, in reds and purples, which is quite fragrant and definitely open in the daytime, even if some nocturnal, white species may have contributed some genes back in the hybridisation process. Other epicactus hybrids may be white and open in the daytime.
Harold
Thanks. I tried to bring out its feminine side.
Harold