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Elton's Corner

Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus SB 1469

I have had Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus SB 1469 for probably only three years. I am not sure how large these plants will get in cultivation. I know the white flower plants will at times grow to 6 cm in diameter and to about 10 cm tall. That was some years ago before alkaline water took its toll on a lot of my plants. At this time these plants are quite small with the largest one being 2.5 cm in diameter and 2 cm tall. I have two of the plants the second one is quite smaller and it is the one that threw two flowers. I am quite disappointed that the plants only bloomed one time this year. But then this year’s weather has really been weird, a couple days of temperatures in the low 100s and then a week of days where I have to wear a sweatshirt for a couple hours in the mornings. Like this morning. I am not sure but we had the coldest May and June that I ever remember. July is going up and down like a yoyo. I have had the regular white flowered plants bloom several times in the spring and early summer. This year none have bloomed more than the one time. I am not sure when a pink flowering T. pseudopectinatus was discovered. It was not mentioned in the 1994 book, Threatened Cacti of Mexico and I do not see it mentioned in Anderson’s book published in 2001. The NCL mentions in passing that the flower color is white to pink with darker midstripe. In the photo book of the NCL they show a photo of the pink flowered plant and it is SB 1469. In the photos the plants may look like they are large but they are not. The spine clusters are all of 2 mm long and a hair over 1 mm wide. With the naked eye it is very hard to make out the individual spines. Taking the spine clusters up to 100% of the photo, makes the spine clusters to 5 inches long and 2 inches wide. At that size you can see the spines very good and the edges of the spines are plumose. The NCL says they are not plumose, so I dare say that who ever they copied the information from did not see that the spines are plumose. In photo 3 you can see that there is a tuft of wool like hairs at the top of each areole. This seems to be lost by the time the areole gets down the side of the plant a little way. In the growing point this wool shows up better than the new spine clusters. It is from where that tuft of wool is growing that the flower buds also form. Photo 5 was meant to show where the flowers buds grow from but they are so large compared to the areoles that it is hard to think they are held on only by a fairly strong thread. In photo 4 on the right side just over half way down the plant you can see a black spot caught between two spine clusters. That is a seed and as close as I got to getting a photo of the seed. That seed is only about 1 mm in diameter. While trying to retrieve the seed it dropped into the pot. From what I see of the seed it looks a lot like an Astrophytum seed. I best watch what I say or the lumpers will move this plant to Astrophytum.

The flower is 3.2 cm in diameter for the single flower. On the plant with two flowers it is 3 cm in diameter for the larger flower. The smaller flower just opened and so is quite a bit smaller. To me the flower looks like it is almost hot pink but has some violet in it, just enough to tone it down. The midstripe is dark colored almost a magenta color. The midstripe is the area where the color is carried to the petals and fans out from. You can see that some areas on some petals are lighter than others. The coloring just did not get evenly spread on each petal. The filaments are a wonderful pink color and the stigma has only a hint of pink in it.

Water alkaline?
Acidify, or expect your
plants to slowly die!

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