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Cactus identification please?
    #19246509 - 12/08/13 06:32 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Hi,

This is my favorite cactus in my collection, I bought it from Ikea a few months ago. I have no idea what it is called though. Can somebody please help me identify it? Thank you!


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Re: Cactus identification please? [Re: hbwr]
    #19246590 - 12/08/13 06:49 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Gymnocalycium baldianum


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Re: Cactus identification please? [Re: modern.shaman]
    #19246769 - 12/08/13 07:29 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Thanks!

How on earth do you go about figuring out the names? I tried searching on google for spherical cactus with red flowers, and various cacti websites, but had no idea where to begin!


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Re: Cactus identification please? [Re: hbwr]
    #19246796 - 12/08/13 07:35 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I've looked at lots of cacti so I can make an educated guess on the Genus then I look at photos online for the species.


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Re: Cactus identification please? [Re: hbwr]
    #19246872 - 12/08/13 07:48 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

With that one I knew it was a gymnocalycium by the way the base of the flower looks.  Its name is Latin for naked calyx.  Which is what first caught my eye with the group.  link


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Re: Cactus identification please? [Re: Corporal Kielbasa]
    #19247271 - 12/08/13 09:12 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

By the base of the flower, do you mean the greenish budding part, or the actual base of the flowers themselves? I checked out that link, and the flowers all look a bit different, but there is a similarity between the green bases.


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Re: Cactus identification please? [Re: hbwr]
    #19247363 - 12/08/13 09:27 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

The green part with the pink tinted scales. I guess the proper term is flower tube.  

to me its a defining characteristic I'd use at first glance when like scrolling down on the web.


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Re: Cactus identification please? [Re: Corporal Kielbasa]
    #19247466 - 12/08/13 09:48 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Thanks, well that is totally my interesting cactus lesson for the week :wink:. Now all I need to do is remember the word 'Gymnocalycium' - these names are such a mouthful, and a pain to memorize! Whoever comes over now I'm going to point at it and say "that's a gymnocalycium," and watch their eyes glaze over, cos nobody I know aside from one friend cares about cacti lol.


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Re: Cactus identification please? [Re: hbwr]
    #19248793 - 12/09/13 04:59 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

the common name for it is a chin cactus. kinda lame, but it can make things easier.
Mine was in mid flower earlier this summer, never fully open though. unless i missed it.


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Re: Cactus identification please? [Re: hbwr]
    #19248879 - 12/09/13 06:12 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I like to shorten the names like gymno, ario, astro, tricho, lopho :shrug:


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Re: Cactus identification please? [Re: 1234go]
    #19249067 - 12/09/13 07:53 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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1234go said:
the common name for it is a chin cactus.




That refers to the bulge beneath each areole, that superficially looks like a chin. :wink:


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Re: Cactus identification please? [Re: LSoares]
    #19249093 - 12/09/13 08:07 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Right on!  I was trying to figure out the reference.


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