Echinocereus gentryi Clover

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Description: Echinocereus scheeriSN|14354]]SN|8657]] subsp. gentryi is a odd looking dangling cactus with spines so short that the stems appear naked and cucumber-like. The trumpet-shaped flowers are pale rose and very showy.
Habitat: It is a caespitose, pendulous, or decumbent plant. Old plants may have 13 or 20 stems and are quite large and heavy.
Stems: 30-60 cm long, but occasionally as long as 1 metre, the old parts coriaceous.
Ribs: 4 to 5 rounded not tuberculate.
Areoles: Closely spaced, about 2-7 mm apart.
Spines: Absent or minute white to cream. The spineless variety is often referred to as Echinocereus cucumisSN|8657]]SN|14354]].
Flowers: Trumpet-shaped up to 14 cm long, pale purplish pink, often nearly white inside. Spines on the flowers and fruits to only 3 mm long. Flowers bud sharply pointed.
Blooming season: It is one of the early species to bloom in spring, flowers remain fully open most of the day and night (or partially closing during the hottest part of the day).
Fruit: Ovoid up to 2 cm long, bright green with white pulp, splitting along one side, with easily detaching spines.

Echinocereus gentryi (llifle.com)

 

 

 

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