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Gymnocalycium calochlorum
(Syn: Gymnocalycium proliferum)
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Gymnocalycium calochlorum
The stem is flat green-grey, the spines are white thin, curved inward and very close to each other.


Flowers are pale pink with a reddish throat
and often does not open completely.

 

Description: Small flattened cactus that can be found very clumped in habitat.
Stem: About 6 cm wide and 4 cm. high.
Ribs: Flat and tuberculate 8 to 12 (but generally 11), the tubercles are polygonal +/- rounded divided by short transversal grooves .
Areoles: Oval, covered with a yellowish tomentum that tends to whiten as they age
Radial spines: 9-13, they are thin of different length, 5-10 mm long, curved inward and very close to each other. They are white or sometime with a reddish basal portion.
Central spines: Absent.
Flowers: Pale pink, are born near apex, about 6 cm long and 7.5cm in diameter. Flower tube is green scaled. They does not open completely.
Fruit: Ovoidal to clavate 1,2-3,5 cm long more or less elonged, epidermis is greenish with a grey-bluish pruine coat. It is covered by small rounded scales bordered with white and contains a large quantity of seeds with the length of 1 mm.
 

There are many varieties and forms of G. chaloclorum relatively similar but with stems of variable colour an size, among them:

  • “proliferum” with a little bigger stem of a darker green colour, and with flowers that open completely, showing curved petals to the outside and of white, brownish white, or pink colour.
  • “roseiacanthum” with smaller stems of about 3 cm. wide and 2 cm. high, showing areolas of yellow colour with twisted spines of pink colour and big flowers of white colour with the pink base

 

 

 

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Family: Cactaceae (Cactus Family)

Scientific name:   Gymnocalycium calochlorum (Boedeker) Y. Ito,
Published in: M. DKG 260; 1952

Origin:  Argentina Cordoba, Catamarca, alt. 500 ŕ 1300 m

Conservation status: Listed in CITES appendix 2.
 

Synonyms:  
  • Echinocactus calochlorus Boedeker
    Published in: Cacti 1952: 90 1952, 1932
  • Gymnocalycium calochlorum v. proliferum (Backeberg) Backeberg.
    Published in: Cactaceae (Backeberg) 3:, 1959
  • Gymnocalycium proliferum
  • Echinocactus prolifer
  • Gymnocalycium proliferum var. calochlorum


Buds and fruits are covered by small rounded
scales bordered with white.
 

 



 

Cultivation: Keep this plant almost dry in winter at a minimum temperature of -5°C (but it  is resistant down to -23 if grown in ground and very dry), prefers a low pH compost otherwise growth will stop altogether. The plant tolerate extremely bright situations  but enjoy  fresh places and some shade during the hottest part of the day in summer.

Propagation: Seeds or by rooting offsets.

Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of Gymnocalycium calochlorum.

 

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