Copiapoa haseltoniana Backeb.

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Origin and Habitat: Endemic to the Atacama desert (Chile, Antofagasta) on a few hundred metres wide coastal plain at 15 km NE, inlands above Paposo (from Taltal to Caleta Colorado), which lies between the sea and the steeply rising coastal mountain.
Habitat: It grows in a scattered population in succulent vegetation such as Heliotropium, Pleocarpus and Opuntia. As is common in this coastal desert climate the early morning is foggy (the humidity of the sea furnish part of the water needed by this plants). By the middle of the morning however, the fog cover dissipate and sun breaking through the gaps warming the ground. The Brained Lizard (Liolaemus platei) is said to feed on floers of Copiapoa haseltoniana.

Description: Usually forms massive clumps, up to 1.5 m tall.
Stems: Light green or reddish tinged with an amber yellow woolly crown, up to 25 cm in diameter, round branching laterally with 14 to 22 ribs. The individual stems are generally oriented northwards.
Spines: Golden up to 3 cm long; 0 to 2 central spines; 0 to 8 radial spines.

Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Copiapoa haseltoniana group

• Copiapoa eremophila F.Ritter: is a densely spined form with very distinctive yellow-brown spines, later almost black found only on the high altitude range of the species. Distribution: Paposo.
• Copiapoa gigantea Backeb.: has the largest and stouter individual stems among the member of the Copiapoa haseltoniana group. Distribution: of Taltal to north of Paposo.
• Copiapoa gigantea f. albispina hort.: it is a white spined clone is quite unusual and rarely seen in cultivation.
• Copiapoa haseltoniana Backeb.: has light green or reddish tinged stems with an amber yellow woolly crown, and forms massive clumps, up to 1,5 m tall. Distribution: Paposo (from Taltal to Caleta Colorado)
• Copiapoa tenebrosa F.Ritter: It shows the characters of haseltoniana, but it is probably an hybrid with thinner and lesser evident spines and green to grey epidermis. The form of Q. San Ramon is particularly beautiful with orange wool with yellowish-white spines.
• Copiapoa tenebrosa f. cristata: Crested form.

Copiapoa haseltoniana (llifle.com)

 

 

 

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