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  Echinocereus pulchellus var. amoenus CACTUS ART
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E. pulchellus var. Amoenus are small growing cacti with flat globular bodies and short pale spines. They are very popular in collections as they remain relatively compact and bear many spectacular big pink/purple/red flowers.
 

Description: Solitary or slowly clumping 
Stems:
Flat globular up to 6 cm (but cultivated plants are frequently higher), 5-7cm in diameter, bluish green when young;
Ribs: 9 to 13;
Areoles: 5 to7 mm inch apart; 3 to 7 pale yellowish spines.
Root: It has a strong taproot.
Flowers: Abundant pink or purple/red (rarely white) flowers, up to 6 cm in diameter.

Note: Many of the plants usually known in cultivation as "Echinocereus amoenus" are instead a form of Echinocereus weinbergii.
 


Photo and © copyright by Mladen Turcinovic (Croatia)
 

Cultivation: It has a strong tap root and should have a deep pot to accommodate it. Needs porous well drained soil, water carefully, too much water will make it rot. Keep dry at minimum temperature of 5° C in winter although will tolerate brief periods to -10 degrees. Sun Exposure: Full sun to light shade.

Propagation:
It grow easily from seed or cutting (if available)

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Family: Cactaceae (Cactus Family)

Scientific name:  Echinocereus pulchellus var. amoenus (Dietrich) Förster ex Schumann 1897

Origin:  Mexico (northern Oaxaca, Puebla, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosi, and Queretaro)

Ecology: It is a geophyte cactus with a swollen underground  storage taproot, in the wild tends to disappear completely in the ground in time of drought.

Conservation status: Listed in CITES appendix 2.

Synonyms:  

  • Echinocereus amoenus (Dietrich) Weber ex Haage 1892
    = Echinopsis amoena Dietrich 1844:187-188.
    TL: Mexico, Hidalgo, near San Mateo 7500 ft., Ehrenberg (?)
    = Cereus amoenus (Dietrich) Hemsley 1880:540
  • Echinopsis pulchella var. flore kermesina Haage ex Förster 1846 pro syn.
  • Echinopsis pulchella var. amoena (Dietrich) Förster 1846
    = Echinocereus pulchellus var. amoenus (Dietrich)Förster ex Schumann 1897
    = Echinocereus pulchellus ssp. amoenus (Dietrich)Blum 1997 Seed
    list. nom. nud.
  • Echinopsis pulchella var. rosea Labouret 1853 pro syn.
  • Echinocereus amoenus var. aguirre Zehnter & Künzler Catalog nom. nud.
    = Echinocereus aguirrei

 

 


Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties of Echinocereus pulchellus.

  • E. pulchellus ssp. pulchellus has stems that are 2,5-5 cm thick with 9 to 12 ribs and 3 to 7 inconspicuous spines per areole. The flowers are pink or white.
  • E. pulchellus ssp. acanthosetus has stems that are 2 to 4cm thick with 9 ribs usually and 5 to 8 flailing hairlike spines. The flowers are magenta to white.
  • E. pulchellus ssp. sharpii  has darker colored stems in comparison to the other subspecies that are 2 to 6cm thick with 11 to 17 ribs and 7 to 14 spines per areole. The flowers are magenta to white.
  • E. pulchellus ssp. weinbergii has stems that are 5 to 15 cm thick with 14 or 15 ribs and 8 to 11 spines per areole. The pink diurnal flower petals are narrowly acute in shape.
  • E. pulchellus ssp. amoenus has 15 cm stems, 10 to 14 ribs & on the young areoles it has 6 to 8 short spines with the lower spine being the longest. The older areoles are devoid of spines. The flowers are magenta.

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