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Gymnocalycium
capillaense (Capilla del Monte, Cordoba, Argentina)
Flowers are colourful and very stricking.
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Description: It is a weak
spined small species notable for the comparatively large flowers that
branches forming numerose offsets. This plant is part of a very confused
group comprising G. siegelianum and G. sutterianum.
Stem: Dull blue-green, very flattened to globular, up to 9 cm
tall and in diameter.
Root: Large tuberose root apparatus.
Ribs: Up to 13 with low, rounded, chin-like tubercles..
Areoles: Oval with white wool.
Spines: 5 up to 12 mm long yellowish or whitish, weak, long,
stinging.
Flower: Large wide delicate pink-white, up to 7 cm tall, 6 cm in
diameter.
Fruit: Club-shaped, light blue when ripe.
NOTE: This species is closely related to
Gymnocalycium sigelianum (which has paler flowers and some
differences in the number and the colour of spines)
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Family:
Cactaceae (Cactus
Family)
Scientific name:
Gymnocalycium capillaense (Schick) Hosseus
In: Revista del Centro Estudiantero de Farmacia Cordoba 2(6):16,1926
Basionym: Echinocactus capillaensis Schick 1923
Origin: Argentina, north-western part of the province of
Cordoba (Sierra Chica, Rio Tercera, Capilla del Monte, Cosquin, San
Luis) Grow at an altitude of 900-1000 metres.
Conservation status: Listed in
CITES appendix 2.
- Gymnocalycium capillaense
(Schick) Backeberg,
In: Backeberg & Knuth, Kaktus ABC 287 (1935)A
- Gymnocalycium capillaense var. sigelianum (Schick)
Till
In: Gymnocalycium 16(1): 489-498 (2003)
- Gymnocalycium capillaense var. sigelianum form deeszianum
(Schick) Till
In: Gymnocalycium 16(1): 489-498 (2003)B
- Gymnocalycium capillaense var. mucidum (Oehme) Till
In: Gymnocalycium 16(1): 489-498 (2003)
- Gymnocalycium sigelianum (Schick) Hosseus 1926
- Echinocactus sutterianus Schick 1923
- Gymnocalycium sutterianum (Schick) Hosseus 1926
- Gymnocalycium deeszianum
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Cultivation: It
is a summer grower species that offers no cultivation difficulties.
Water regularly in summer (but do not overwater ) Keep this plant almost dry in winter at a minimum
temperature of 0°C, prefer relatively rich substrate and
low pH
compost (if possible not limestone) otherwise
growth will stop altogether. Feed with a high
potassium fertilizer in summer. It is quite frost resistant if kept dry
(hardy to -5° C)
Sun Exposure: Light shade. It may tolerate
bright situations but is
likely to suffer from sun scorch or stunted growth if over exposed to
direct sunlight
during the hottest part of the day in summer. This plant needs plenty of space for
its roots, repotting should be done every other year or when the
it has outgrown its pot. This species is particularly easy and
accommodating, seldom suffer of
cryptogamic diseases.
Propagation: Direct sow after
last frost. (seldom
produces offsets)
Seed
Collecting: Permit
fruit to
ripen.
Fruit must be significantly
overripe before harvesting seed; clean and dry seeds.
Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants
belonging to the
Gymnocalycium capillaense
complex
(This
Taxon
has lots of synonyms (
like many other cacti) whit
several controversial varieties and subspecies and comprises a
multitude of different forms, but where each form is linked to others by
populations of plants with intermediate characteristics):
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