Ferocactus pottsi

[Pauroba]

Main Question or Discussion Point

Is it a common fact to see this fero cactus flowering

 

[jedishrfu]

Is it really a ferocactus pottsi? The images I've seen online don't show the longish stem.

https://www.google.com/search?q=flowering+Ferocactus+pottsii

Here's some additional info on pottsi:

http://www.cactus-art.biz/schede/FEROCACTUS/Ferocactus_pottsii/Ferocactus_pottsii/Ferocactus pottsii.htm

http://www.cactus-art.biz/schede/FEROCACTUS/Ferocactus_pottsii/Ferocactus_pottsii_alamosensis/Ferocactus_pottsii_alamosensis.htm

http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACTI/Family/Cactaceae/15546/Ferocactus_pottsii

 

[Pauroba]

Without the flowers, it has all of a ferocactus pottsi

 

[Pauroba]

 

[Pauroba]

Here is the first

flower blossomming

 

[Pauroba]

The second flower has blossomed after the first one has wilterred.

 

[Pauroba]

 

[Pauroba]

beautiful delicate flowers

 

[Pauroba]

inside the wondrous flower !

 

[Pauroba]

It seems that the cactus is na echinopsis-subdenudata.
See the flower blooming overnight in the gettyimages video
https://www.gettyimages.pt/detail/vídeo/blooming-cactus-echinopsis-subdenudata-4k-filmes-de-arquivo/946225040