Echinopsis hybrid

The name 'Candlelight' refers to the mature flower bud that resembles the flame of a candle.

Large multicolered flowers, mauve, pink and orangish.

Very particular flower with white petals that fade into purple at the tip. The tip of the petal is more o less elegantly curled in a unique and characteristic way.

The flowers are different every time the plant blooms but always beautiful, ranging in color from red to purple with a yellow or cream border.

Flower to 14 cm across. Petals white with pure white midrib. Outer petals and sepals projecting beyond inners, some outers and all sepals with light grey midstripe. Throat-circle, filaments and stigma white. Stem semicolumnar, to about 8.5 cm in diameter.