#notocactus

Notocactus roseoluteus

This wonderful cactus produces an extraordinary number of large pink-and-yellow flowers every year (several dozen). It comes from Uruguay, and cactus classifiers disagree on what to call it. In Taxonomy of the Cactaceae, Joel Lode considers it to be a variety of Notocactus herteri. In David Hunt’s New Cactus Lexicon, he does not even recognize the genus Notocactus, preferring to lump these plants into Parodia. He includes it in an expanded concept of Parodia mammulosa (= Notocactus mammulosus). At the Ruth Bancroft Garden, we are happy to keep calling it Notocactus roseoluteus until the dust settles.

-Brian

Notocactus in flowers!!!
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