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Insolitamente alto per un Echionopsis, è una specie cespitosa con rami cilindrici ascendenti, ma a volte solitaria in coltivazione. molto attrattiva per le spine gialle e robuste. Scientific Name: Echinopsis chacoana Schütz Conservation status: Listed in CITES appendix 2. Common Names include: Easter Lily Cactus Origin: Paraguay (Chaco Boreal) Etymology: For the occourence in the Chaco region of Paraguay.
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| Description: E. chacoana is unusually tall for an Echinopsis, it is a clumping plant with erect or ascending stems, sometime solitary in cultivation, it is an attractive plant because of its long spines. Stems: At first ball-like or oval the as the plant mature cylyndical, dull grey green, 30-80 cm tall, up to 9 cm in diameter Ribs: 12-18, low, moderately sinuate. Areoles: Large rounded, 1,5-2,5 mm apart. Spines: Yellowish with brownish tips. Central spines: 0-1 slightly bent upward long and stiff, up to 2,5 cm long. In habitat the one central may reach 4 cm. in length Radial spines: 7-8, spreading, stright to slightly curved, up to 2 cm long. Flower: White, up to 15 cm long. Inner perianth segments pure white, oblong, acute, stigma lobes linear, ± 11, greenish, tube long woolly. |
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Cultivation: The Echinopsis chacoana is a summer grower species that offers no cultivation difficulties. Water regularly in summer (but do not overwater ) needs good drainage and very porous soil, keep rather dry in winter.Feed with a high potassium fertilizer in summer. It is quite frost resistant if kept dry (hardy to -7° C). Need a bright exposure, full sun or half shade in summer. Propagation: Direct sow after last frost, offsets. |
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