Some remarks about...
**** WITTIA AMAZONICA ****
**** or DISOCACTUS AMAZONICUS ****
** or PSEUDORHIPSALIS AMAZONICUS **
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My purpose in this article is to bring some botanical information and some personal remarks (about cultivation) concerning Wittia amazonica.
The clone of Wittia amazonica which I have been cultivating for a long time.
HOW I GROW WITTIA AMAZONICA
In my collection I have been growing a clone of Wittia amazonica
since 1996 i.e. approximately 12 years.(We are now in January 2009). This
plant always fascinated me by its difficulty of cultivation (appearance of
black and dry necroses almost each winter on some stems), as well as by the
difficulty to obtain blooms,
since I only could observe the first blooms in spring 2008.
The other photographs of Wittia amazonica on my website are from cuttings of other clones which bloomed a few weeks after their entry in my collection and which survived (except one) only a few months.
Wittia amazonica ssp. panamensis
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Wittia amazonica (another recent clone bought in 2006 and still in perfect health)
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