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Astrophytum
Astrophytum asterias sm -
Is
an extremely flat barrel cactus with unique and remarkably beautiful form and no
typical covering of spines, but with tiny speckled tuft of hairs less than
pinhead-sized. It produces large yellow flowers with orange throats often larger
than the plant itself. The common name comes of Sea-Urchin Cactus or Sand Dollar
resemblance to sea urchin without spines. Mexico.
Seed grown in the USA. Growing in
2.75" pots. 3 in stock @ $25.00 each.
Astrophytum asterisa 'Nudum' sm - This
form has a very characteristic glabrous stem lacking the white tufts of loose
hairy scales typical of the common Astrophytum
asterias.
The smooth green epidermis show up the felty areoles.
Nude plants are occasionally found in the natural habitat but many of the clones
actually in cultivation are of nursery origin.
Seed grown in the USA.
Growing in 2.75" pots. 5 in stock @ $25.00 each.
Astrophytum asterisa 'Superkabuto' sm -
'Super Kabuto' with
its inimitable fuzzy epidermis is actually the most popular cactus cultivar. It
is easily distinguished from the normal Astrophytum
asterias by
the epidermis, that does not have simple dots, but a mosaic of extensive white
spots that make the plant look intensely maculate. The "Superkabuto" would
(probably) come from a mutation that occurred in nature to just one
field-collected individual A.
asterias found
in 1981 by the Japanese Mr. Masaomi Takeo in an American garden centre and sold
to Tony Sato at a high price in Japan. Propagations have been made possible by
cross-pollinating this fist plant with other normal A.
asterias and Astrophytum
capricorne
(and possible other Astrophytum species
too), it can be concluded that all the SK actually available are the result of
intraspecific hybridization and SK contains not only A.
asterias genes
but also a significant number of A.
capricorne genes,
and maybe others. As a result spiny clones appear rather often and the name Astrophytum
asterias cv.
Super Kabuto is
not quite correct. Many different beautiful forms of 'Super
Kabuto' ,
which differ for the diverse pattern of the spots are now available. It would be
difficult to mention them all: they range from completely white forms ('white-type'),
to forms with woolly spots ('snow-type'),
to forms with a maculation like the shape of fly's wings ('zebra-type'
or 'V type').
Nursery
origin. Seed grown in the USA. Growing in 2.75" pots. 13 in stock @ $30.00 each.
Astrophytum capricorne m -
Solitary globose or columnar cactus.
Although young plants are globular, they soon become ovoid, and eventually
columnar up to 1.2 m tall, 10 (15) cm in diameter. The epidermis of is more or
less covered with the typical white woolly flecks characteristic of the genus.
Flowers are sweet
smelling large yellow with a red center. Northern Mexico. Seed
grown in the USA. Growing in 3 1/2"
pots. 14 in stock @ $15.00 each.
Astrophytum myriostrgma sm -
Is
a spineless succulent plant, usually solitary or with very few basal branches. A
transverse section of the stem reveal a perfect star shaped form (like the
common star-fish) giving the plant the appearance of a bishop's mitre (hence the
common name Bishop's cap). Globular to cylindrical, bright green, covered with
many minute white hairy scales that give it a characteristic chalk-white or
silvery-grey appearance, but sometime naked. The scales are composed of very
fine interwoven hairs, which, under a microscope, are very pretty object.
Flowers are funnel
form, glossy yellow and sweet scented from the areole at the tip of the stem on
mature plant. Mexico. Seed grown in the USA. Growing in 2.75"
pot. 18 in stock @ $15.00 each.
Astrophytum myriostrgma 8096 lg -
Is
a spineless succulent plant, usually solitary or with very few basal branches. A
transverse section of the stem reveal a perfect star shaped form (like the
common star-fish) giving the plant the appearance of a bishop's mitre (hence the
common name Bishop's cap). Globular to cylindrical, bright green, covered with
many minute white hairy scales that give it a characteristic chalk-white or
silvery-grey appearance, but sometime naked. The scales are composed of very
fine interwoven hairs, which, under a microscope, are very pretty object.
Flowers are funnel
form, glossy yellow and sweet scented from the areole at the tip of the stem on
mature plant. The number on in the name is a seed package number. Mexico.
Seed grown in the USA. Growing in
a 4 1/2" pot. 1 in stock @ $50.00.
Astrophytum myriostrgma 8093 lg -
Is
a spineless succulent plant, usually solitary or with very few basal branches. A
transverse section of the stem reveal a perfect star shaped form (like the
common star-fish) giving the plant the appearance of a bishop's mitre (hence the
common name Bishop's cap). Globular to cylindrical, bright green, covered with
many minute white hairy scales that give it a characteristic chalk-white or
silvery-grey appearance, but sometime naked. The scales are composed of very
fine interwoven hairs, which, under a microscope, are very pretty object.
Flowers are funnel
form, glossy yellow and sweet scented from the areole at the tip of the stem on
mature plant. The number on in the name is a seed package number. Mexico. Growing in 2.75"
pot. 18 in stock @ $15.00 each. Mexico. Seed grown in the USA. Growing in
a 4 1/2" pot. 1 in stock @ $50.00.
Astrophytum myriostrgma 8084 lg -
Is
a spineless succulent plant, usually solitary or with very few basal branches. A
transverse section of the stem reveal a perfect star shaped form (like the
common star-fish) giving the plant the appearance of a bishop's mitre (hence the
common name Bishop's cap). Globular to cylindrical, bright green, covered with
many minute white hairy scales that give it a characteristic chalk-white or
silvery-grey appearance, but sometime naked. The scales are composed of very
fine interwoven hairs, which, under a microscope, are very pretty object.
Flowers are funnel
form, glossy yellow and sweet scented from the areole at the tip of the stem on
mature plant. Mexico. Growing in 2.75"
pot. 18 in stock @ $15.00 each.
The number on in the name is a seed package number. Mexico. Seed grown in
the USA. Growing in
a 4 1/2" pot. 1 in stock @ $50.00.
Astrophytum myriostrgma 'Black Snow' sm - These don't
getting large. Very dark skin with flocking. Will make offsets from up and brown
the ribs. Cuttings
from owe mother plant. Nursery
origin. Growing in 2.75" pots. 5 in stock $35.00 each.
Astrophytum myriostrgma nudum "Red Blush" lg #1 -Very
dark purplish skin that will have a red, pink and yellowish high lights. Nursery
origin. Cuttings from my old mother plant. Cutting from our old mother plants. Growing in a 4 1/2" pot. #1 @ @ $65.00.
Astrophytum myriostrgma nudum "Red Blush" lg #2 -
Very dark purplish skin that will have a red, pink and yellowish high lights. Nursery
origin. Cutting from our old mother plants. Growing in a 4 1/2" pot. #2 @ @ $65.00.
Astrophytum myriostrgma
nudum "Red Blush" 4 sided lg #3 -
Very dark purplish skin that will have a red, pink and yellowish high lights.
Cutting from our old mother plants. Nursery origin. Growing in a 4 1/2" pot. #3 @ @ $75.00.
Astrophytum ornatum SB 127 lg -
Is
a shortly columnar cactus appearing star-shaped from above, with white cross
bands of woolly scales. It appears to be a very variable species especially for
the density and distribution of white scales. It is the largest and easiest to
grow and also the fastest of the astrophytums. It is also generally more heavily
spined than other Astrophytums. The stem is solitary, globose when young ,
cylindric with age, greyish-green to dark-green with more or less dense white or
yellow woolly flakes in bands forming an ornate pattern. At apex,
large, lemon-yellow, broad, inner perianth segments broadly oblong, with a
broad, more or less serrated apex, tube short woolly, scale on ovary, dark and
very narrow. Mexico. Seed grown in the USA. Growing in 4 1/2" pots. 2 in stock @
$25.00 each.
Astrophytum ornatum ssp. mirbellii lg -
Is the more common of the varieties of Astrophytum
ornatum
already described in 1838 by Lemaire. The stem is stout, very white with the
characteristic thick white hair-tufts evenly spread on the body surface, on the
contrary the white hair-tufts in typical plants are in broad bands, seeming to
be hanging from opposing areoles and take a long time in the transition to the
adult form. It distinguish also for its golden yellow somewhat shorter spines.
Up to date many botanists don’t recognize the variety rank to this taxon which
does not differ conspicuously from the other forms of the species. The
stem is solitary, globose when young, shortly columnar with age, 30 to 120 cm
(or more) high, 15-30 cm across, greyish-green to dark-green with dense white
flakes in covering more or less uniformly the epidermis. At apex, large,
lemon-yellow 7-12 cm broad, inner perianth segments broadly oblong, with a
broad, more or less serrated apex, tube short woolly, scale on ovary, dark and
very narrow. Mexico. Seed growing in the USA. Growing in 4 1/2" pots. 2 in stock
@ $35.00 each.