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Flowers open during the day and close at night.
Succineus
"amber coloured" and sulphureus
"yellow coloured" refers to the colour of the spination.
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Morphology
(Identifying
Characteristics):
Habit:
Clumping short
cactus
Stem: At
first globular, becoming
shortly
columnar
up to 45 cm tall,
10 cm in diameter.
Spines: Dense
amber-yellow, the new spines are orangish.
Flower:
Diurnal,
opening in during the day and closing at night. Yellow with red pistil,
4cm in diameter.
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Cultivation:
This is an easy plant to cultivate.
It can support quite an amount of water during the growing season.
Watering Needs: Keep rather
dry in winter. It rots easily if soil is wet and cold.
Relatively cold
hardy,
Sun Exposure:
Light shade to
full sun, but
it doesn't like full, hot
blazing sun in the central summer month.
Reproduction: seed
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Family:
Cactaceae (Cactus
Family) Notocactus sulphureus
n.n.
Scientific Name:
Notocactus
scopa f. succineus
(F.Ritter 1970) N.Gerloff & Neduchal 2003
In: Gerloff, N. & Neduchal, J.
(2003): Internoto 24 (3/4): 59-60 |
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Distribution:
Southern Brazil, Uruguay, northern Argentina
Conservation status:
Listed
in
CITES Appendix II
The Notocactus
scopa aggregate is an ensemble of related species comprising
N. scopa,
N. schlosseri, N. scopa var. xicoi, N. sucineus
NOTE: This
plant was
transferred to
Parodia in 1997 by David Hunt.
Synonyms:
- Parodia succinea
N.P.Taylor 1987
Parodia scopa ssp. succinea Hofacker & P.J. Braun 1998
- Peronocactus scopa ssp. succineus
(F.Ritter) Doweld 1999nom.gen.inval.
- Notocactus (SG Scopacactus) scopa ssp.
succineus (F.Ritter) Doweld 2000
- Notocactus succineus var. sulphureus n.n.
- Notocactus scopa v sulphureus
- Notocactus sulphureus n.n.
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Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and
cultivars of plants belonging to the
Notocactus scopa
complex:
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