perezdelarosae

This is such a beautiful species!
Great photo.

Chris43 wrote:

This is such a beautiful species!
Great photo.

Thank u !!!!

Hallo Chris,
Saw them today at El Occote, in flower.

Excellent, Walter, I was there at El Ecote in 2010, but in April, no flowers

It is beautiful! I have same one,but no flowers.

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red spines

very, very nice plants

to:Przemyslaw
thanks!
this plants's spin is bright red.

Hi,
I can't quite see all the label, but does it say Cienega de los Pinos, which is in the Sierra El Laurel, and is it Rog 385.

If so, it is from a location that he revisited some years later, and came to the conclusion, along with Plein, that these plants were probably intermediate between M. bombycina and M. perezdelarosae, and amusingly nicknamed them "bombyrosa".

I have one of these plants, and its spines are that lovely colour, but I don't know if it is self fertile. I hope so, as I'll like to propagate it.

Of course the botanists (not the collectors) have put perezdelarosae as a subspecies of bombycina, so intermediate forms are not too surprising.

I have been at the location of 'bombyrosae' TL 238, which I think is the same as Rog 385. The location which I have for it is Cienega de Quijas, and I believe that this is the same as (or part of) Cienega de los Pinos. The plants are indeed somewhat intermediate between bombycina and perezdelarosae.
Attached are some photos of this 'bombyrosae'.

Wolter ten Hoeve.

Nice plants, and as ever, great photos.

And here are a few photos of M. perezdelarosae from El Ocote.

Wolter.

Nice to see the plants that I saw at El Ocote in 2010 in flower. Thanks, Wolter.