Thelocactus setispinus

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Thelocactus setispinus

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I find this bloom color discrepancy rather disturbing. Are these really all the same species?
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The blooms of the plant in the second post appear correct, but it gives no good view of the cactus. In the first post, the 2nd picture looks a lot like the plant I have, but the 1st and the 3rd with the purple flowers have very different spinage. Combining that with the purple flowers would appear to suggest a different species. I am on my way to work, but can do some literature research as to flower color - some species do have that wide a range in possible flower color - when I get back home.
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That's kind of what I was thinking. I'll shoot Geoff a PM, so he can look into it as well.
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Here is a picture of the same plant at a previous blooming with a visitor hoping for a free meal to come along. This little plant will flower all summer long for me. I'v read that it can be grown from seed to flowering in one year. I think the non blooming plant in the third picture and the plant in the second picture are T. setispinus and the blooming plants with pinkish flowers are both T. bicolor.

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Hi Bob,

Nice picture! Yep definitely T. setispinus that plant. Mine did not quite continuously flower last summer, but pretty close to it.

Here are a couple of shots of mine showing some flowers:
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It has outgrown its hanging basket completely, moving it to bigger ground based pot in the next few weeks.
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Great pics mcvansoest. I see you live in Mesa Arizona, Are you close to Mesa Garden? that is one place I would really like to see. Made several orders from them and got some beautiful plants. All Cactus, haven't tried their Agaves yet.

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And another few flower shots, that I think came out really well:
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RCS wrote:Great pics mcvansoest. I see you live in Mesa Arizona, Are you close to Mesa Garden? that is one place I would really like to see. Made several orders from them and got some beautiful plants. All Cactus, haven't tried their Agaves yet.

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Mesa Garden is in New Mexico.
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RCS wrote:Great pics mcvansoest. I see you live in Mesa Arizona, Are you close to Mesa Garden? that is one place I would really like to see. Made several orders from them and got some beautiful plants. All Cactus, haven't tried their Agaves yet.

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Hi Bob,

The Mesa Garden you are talking about is in New Mexico... so unfortunately I am not very close. Not crazy far, but far enough that it would have to be a multi-day planned trip. I have a hard time making it out to the Tucson nurseries and those are at most an hour and a half drive away, so while it has been on my to do list, I am not sure when I will get around to it ::wink:: .

I think I agree with your assessment that the pink flowered cacti in photos of the first post are T. bicolor. As far as I can tell T. setispinus has the yellow flowers with the red centers as so apparent from the other pictures.

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I agree, but let's wait for Geoff to weigh in before making any moves.
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I have nothing to weigh... Huntington garden plants identified by the Huntington garden people... either I read the wrong label or they were incorrectly identified
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Mcvansoest Thanks for correcting my error about Masa Garden. I guess my brain was on vacation somewhere out there.
Great pictures of your plants. It's a good one to have around that can take our rain and humidity and really show off. Finished off the year with 67 inches of rain. Been a wet one even for us.

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