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A Schick Hybrid. ISI 99-10; HBG 82622, Schick 1373-9. This famous hybrid posses long-lasting flowers that are quite simply unrivalled for their delicate beauty and huge size.
Origin and Habitat: Garden origin (A distictive cultivar created by cacti enthusiast and hybridiser Bob Schick )
Synonyms:
Description: 'Gossamer'is one of the most popular and appreciated Echinopsis cultivars, it is the result of more than 20 years of devoted work by cacti enthusiast and hybridiser Bob Schick. (ISI 99-10; HBG 82622, Schick 1373-9.)
Stem: Spherical, up to10 cm in diameter.
Spines: 15 mm long.
Flower: Very large up to 15 cm (or more) across.
Tepals: Oblong to oblanceolate, ruffled near midline, light lavender-pink with darker midrib and a small rounded white area at base.
Throat-circle: White.
Filaments: White. Exserted, white central.
Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Echinopsis hybrid (Schick Hybrids) group
Echinopsis cv. Anastasia: has delicate bicoloured white with lilac-pink flowers, with a brighter pink midrib on outer petals.
Echinopsis cv. Beautiful Dreamer: has apricot or salmon pink flowers outer tepals pinkish with a purple-violet mid-line.
Echinopsis cv. Candlelight: has small to medium sized bicolored blooms (up to 9 cm across) sand yellow and pure yellow.
Echinopsis cv. Cassandra: has two-toned blooms up to 11/12 cm across. Bright purple/red whit a light orange midrib.
Echinopsis cv. Coquette: has bright yellow, fragrant blooms, up to 11(-12) cm across, but usually less than 10 cm.
Echinopsis cv. Crepe Crusader: light magenta with cream-colored to light orange basal stripe and dark pinkish-red midrib.
Echinopsis cv. Daydream: has bicolored blooms, Up to 11.5 cm across, tannish-orange and pink with darker pink midrib.
Echinopsis cv. Don Juan: has bicoloured blooms, deep purple with a deep red base and midrib, outer tepals largely red.
Echinopsis cv. Eclipse: flowers up to 11 cm across, pinkish-red with a lighter midrib. Outer tepals yellow and project beyond the darker inners.
Echinopsis cv. Eddie: has delicate pink blooms with fine pink outer margin, light pinkish-red basal stripe and salmon-pink darker midrib.
Echinopsis cv. Edwardian Lady: has bicolored purplish-pink and white flowers with narrow bright yellow basal stripe. Up to 12 cm across.
Echinopsis cv. Elegant Lady: Flowers white, with outer tepals projecting beyond inners, bicolored white and light pinkish-purple.
Echinopsis cv. Eroica: Flowers up to 10,5 cm cm across, rich pink with darker midrib and paler margin.
Echinopsis cv. Galaxy: flowers white with prominent purplish-pink basal stripe and midrib.
Echinopsis cv. Gossamer: flowers light lavender-pink with darker midrib and a small rounded white area at base.
Echinopsis cv. Hot Lips: flowers dark scarlet about 10-11cm across.
Echinopsis cv. Icarus: flowers pale pastel yellow with bright yellow midrib.
Echinopsis cv. Intrigue: Flowers dark red tinted purple with an orange midrib. Outer tepals pale tawny-colored.
Echinopsis cv. Jealousy: flowers bright to pastel yellow. Sepaloids pinkish-purple longer than tepals.
Echinopsis cv. Lochinvar: flowers lavender-pink with darker midrib.
Echinopsis cv. Madame Pele: flowers bicoloured flowers up to 10/12 cm across, dark vermilion with bright paler magenta margin.
- Echinopsis cv. Maria Piazza: has large sized flowers up to 15 cm across, rich purplish-pink with dark pinkish-red midrib.
Echinopsis cv. Maria Piazza f. cristasta: Crested form.
Echinopsis cv. Monet: flowers bicolored pastel magenta to dusky purplish-red and bronzy-orange. Outer tepals paler than inners.
Echinopsis cv. Princess Anne: flowers pale pink with a white base the midrib may be slightly deeper pink.
Echinopsis cv. Romance: flowers dark velvety pink with narrow pale purplish-pink margins and dark reddish-pink midrib.
Echinopsis cv. Samantha Smith: blooms are about 12 cm in diameter, ruffled, yellowish-orange.
Echinopsis cv. Sierra Skyline: Up to 14 cm across prominently fringed apricot to salmon. Outers mainly light purplish-pink.
Echinopsis cv. Sorceress: flowers bicolored mainly deep magenta with thin, dark bronzy-orange or deep red basal stripe and midrib.
Echinopsis cv. Spring Blush: flowers beige-pink with white to yellow basal stripe and pink midrib.
Echinopsis cv. Spring Symphony: flowers light purplish-pink with darker midrib, a white margin and yellow to ivory-coloured basal stripe.
Echinopsis cv. Syncopation: petals subequal, dark pinkish-purple, with darker reddish midrib.
Echinopsis cv. Temptress: blooms are about 11 cm across, dark satiny fuchsia with deep red at base.
Echinopsis cv. Träumerei: blooms large, up to 13 cm in diameter pastel orange suffused with magenta, midrib light yellow/amber.
Echinopsis cv. Windigo: Bicolored magenta and bronzy orange to bright red with paler midrib.
Bibliography: Major references and further lectures
1) John N. Trager "Huntington Botanical Gardens" online: http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/Schick/hybrids/gossamer.html retrieved on 03-11-2013

Echinopsis cv. Gossamer Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

Echinopsis cv. Gossamer Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

Echinopsis cv. Gossamer Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

Echinopsis cv. Gossamer Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
Cultivation and Propagation: This plant is a summer grower species that offers no cultivation difficulties. Water regularly in summer (but do not overwater ) needs good drainage and very porous soil, keep rather dry in winter. Feed with a high potassium fertilizer in summer. Need a bright exposure, full sun or half shade in summer.
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