Echinocereus ID

[jam]

Can you please identify this Echinocereus? It's growing in a friend's garden in Czechia and copes well with their cold and wet winters.

[Tom in Tucson]

My best guess: E. enneacanthus v. brevispinus

[nsp88]

Can you please identify this Echinocereus? It's growing in a friend's garden in Czechia and copes well with their cold and wet winters.

Is that agave going to survive, growing into those cactus spines?

[jam]

@Tom in Tucson thanks, Tom. I have been considering this one as a very probable ID but kind of thought it would not make it through Czech winters. I stand corrected.

@nsp88 I don't know. Both plants (Echinocereus and Agave) are pupping and left to spread on their own. Obviously they get into each other's way, but if you're after a natural look, why not?

[gdlwyverex]

My best guess: E. enneacanthus v. brevispinus

I have one just like it that I have been calling Echinocereus cinerascens

EchinocereusCinerascens.jpg (82.89 KiB) Viewed 1646 times

I'll change my database to reflect the correct name
Thanks

Richard

[gdlwyverex]

My best guess: E. enneacanthus v. brevispinus

While correcting my database I see that Kews has declared echinocereus enneacanthus f. brevispinus
to be a synonym for Echinocereus enneacanthus var. carnosus


Richard

[agavegreg]

Could be E. parkeri.

[jam]

Could be E. parkeri.

Would parkeri be able to withstand cold and wet Central European winters? I mean we're talking here -15C, even -20C from time to time (5F to -4F). Than again, if there's a genus which can surprise you regarding its freeze tolerance, it must be Echinocereus. The list of very obvious ones like triglochidiatus, reichenbachii, etc. may get updated by species formerly considered to be tender because of originating too south or/and too low altitude wise.