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Hildewintera aureispina f. cristata hort.

Family: CACTACEAE

Accepted Scientific Name: Cleistocactus winteri f. cristatus hort.

Hildewintera aureispina f. cristata (Cleistocactus winteri f. cristatus) Photo by: Andrea B.
This is the beautiful and very popular crested form of the "golden rattail"

Synonyms:

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Accepted name in llifle Database:
Cleistocactus winteri D.R.Hunt
Bradleya 6: 100. 1988
Synonymy: 7 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Cleistocactus winteri subs. colademononis (Diers & Krahn) D.R.Hunt
Cactaceae Syst. Init. 20: 14. 2005 [Nov 2005]
Synonymy: 5 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Cleistocactus winteri f. cristatus hort.
Synonymy: 3 Cultivars (1):
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Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Crested Golden Rat Tail

Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Cleistocactus winteri group

  • Cleistocactus winteri D.R.Hunt: Produces pendant or trailing stems up to 100 cm in length. It has very attractive golden spines and flowers are a vivid orange or salmon-pink colour.
  • Cleistocactus winteri subs. colademononis (Diers & Krahn) D.R.Hunt: has stems up to 2.5 m long with white hairy spines, 4-8(-12) cm long. Flowers red, zygomorphic 7-8 cm long. Distribution: Cerro El Fraile, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
  • Cleistocactus winteri f. cristatus hort.: This plant forms huge tangled mounds of fairly rapid growth.
  • Cleistocactus winteri cv. Ring: It is a very rare circular crest. This particular form of cristation develops at the stems top.


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