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More Echinopsis

Three different Echinopsis flowers. Which one is the most beautiful?

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Echinopsis hybrid

Here is another of the spectacular Echinopsis hybrids, with Soehrensia formosa subspecies randallii in its parentage. It is a hybrid I made 13 years ago, but this year is its best flowering ever.

Echinopsis hybrids

For a time, cacti in the genera Echinopsis, Trichocereus, Lobivia and Soehrensia were swept together in a greatly expanded conception of Echinopsis. All these plants can be hybridized with each other, so the many combinations were all referred to as Echinopsis hybrids. Now that DNA evidence has led to the return of the old separate genera, we still tend to call the hybrids "Echinopsis hybrids", since we often don't know what exactly is in their ancestry (even if the ancestry is known, it would take a detailed diagram to explain it all), so it is conveniently concise to just call them all Echinopsis hybrids. There are many such hybrids, and here are two examples; the yellow-flowered one is 'Giant Yellow', and the orange-flowered one was received over 20 yeasrs ago without a name (but it has grown into a many-headed clump and is making an unbelievable flower display this year!)