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Accepted Scientific Name: Ariocarpus bravoanus subs. hintonii (Stuppy & N.P.Taylor) E.F.Anderson & W.A.Fitz Maur.
Haseltonia 5: 11. 1998 [1997 publ. 1998]
Origin and Habitat: Garden origin (Nursery produced cultivar)
Synonyms:
Ariocarpus bravoanus H.M.Hern. & E.F.Anderson
Bradleya 10: 1. 1992
Synonymy: 3
- Ariocarpus bravoanus H.M.Hern. & E.F.Anderson
- Ariocarpus fissuratus subs. bravoanus (H.M.Hern. & E.F.Anderson) Lüthy
- Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus subs. bravoanus (H.M.Hern. & E.F.Anderson) Halda
Ariocarpus bravoanus subs. hintonii (Stuppy & N.P.Taylor) E.F.Anderson & W.A.Fitz Maur.
Haseltonia 5: 11. 1998 [1997 publ. 1998]
Synonymy: 6
- Ariocarpus bravoanus subs. hintonii (Stuppy & N.P.Taylor) E.F.Anderson & W.A.Fitz Maur.
- Ariocarpus fissuratus subs. hintonii (Stuppy & N.P.Taylor) Halda
- Ariocarpus fissuratus var. hintonii Stuppy & N.P.Taylor
- Ariocarpus hintonii (Stuppy & N.P.Taylor) hort.
- Ariocarpus bravoanus subs. hintonii f. monstruosa rubra hort.
Description: Ariocarpus bravoanusSN|2073]]SN|2073]] subs. hintonii f. monstruosa rubra is an odd monstrous mutant forming tangled clusters of soft rubbery textured red stems, only a few centimeters across and the plant looks more like a red marine species or a coral than a cactus. This cultivar shows many growing variations with different monstrous shapes.
Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Ariocarpus fissuratus group
- Ariocarpus bravoanus H.M.Hern. & E.F.Anderson: It is particularly interesting as it represents a link between the former subgenera Ariocarpus with an undivided or fully divided areole and Roseocactus subgenus with the areolar fissure.
- Ariocarpus bravoanus subs. hintonii (Stuppy & N.P.Taylor) E.F.Anderson & W.A.Fitz Maur.
- Ariocarpus bravoanus subs. hintonii f. monstruosa rubra hort.: has soft rubbery textured red montrous stems, only a few centimeters across and plant looks more like some non-cactus succulent than a cactus.
- Ariocarpus fissuratus K.Schum. in Engl. & Prantl: Geophyte plant that produces a star-shaped rosette of fleshy, deltoid to hemispheric tubercles which are coarsely rugose and characteristically deeply fissured on either side of the central areolar groove.
- Ariocarpus fissuratus f. aurea: Mutant completely lacking chlorophyll pigment. The result is a completely yellow .
- Ariocarpus fissuratus var. lloydii (Rose) W.T.Marshall: has higher, somewhat rounded and more convex stem appearing above the ground.
- Ariocarpus fissuratus var. lloydii f. aurea hort.: Mutant completely lacking chlorophyll pigment. The result is a completely yellow or orangish plant.
- Ariocarpus fissuratus var. lloydii f. cristata hort.: crested form.
- Ariocarpus fissuratus var. lloydii cv. latus
- Ariocarpus fissuratus f. monstruosus: It shows an abnormal, uncoordinated form of vegetative growth, with a multitude of condensed lateral proliferation, each areole originating a new stem only a few centimetres across.
- Ariocarpus fissuratus var. pailanus Halda
- Ariocarpus fissuratus f. pectinatus hort.: has long areoles that stretch out to the full length of the tubercle and uncommon short pectinated spines already present in young specimens. Distribution: Only known from cultivated specimen.
- Ariocarpus fissuratus f. rubra hort.: has notches ribs of a bright red colour due to the absence (or reduced production) of chlorophyll pigments.
- Ariocarpus fissuratus cv. Godzilla: Odd plant with strongly structured surface and the deep colour, but greener or woollier plants are in the variation range of this cultivar.
- Ariocarpus fissuratus cv. Godzilla (Cotton Flock Type): Very woolly form. The rough tubercles epidermis is almost concealed by the dense long hairs .
- Ariocarpus fissuratus cv. Godzilla aurata
- Ariocarpus fissuratus cv. Godzilla variegata
- Ariocarpus fissuratus cv. Green Coral: this cultivar must be considered the next step of "Godzilla" with larger and longer green warts on the tubercles surface.
- Ariocarpus intermedius (Backeb. & Kilian) M.Voldan: (A. fissuratus var. intermedius) intermediate form between Ariocarpus fissuratus and Ariocarpus lloydii.
Cultivation and Propagation: Variegated and albinous cacti are regarded as choice and difficult in cultivation, but despite that many of them are relatively easy to grow. But be aware that they cannot tolerate prolonged exposure to direct sun light (especially during the hottest summer days), so grow them in half-shade or under filtered sun. They are sometime seen as grafted plants, but many grow well on their own roots, too.
On the contrary, the albinos can survive only if grafted on a strong green base.
Use mineral well-permeable substratum with little organic matter (peat, humus). Water sparingly from March till October and keep perfectly dry in winter at temperatures from 5 to 15 degrees centigrade. (In general these plants are more tender and cannot endure freezing temperatures ) In the rest period no high atmospheric humidity!!
Propagation: Almost usually by seed. Plants are often grafted onto column-shaped cacti.
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