DISOCACTUS QUEZALTECUS
photo 3/5
On this photograph, we see a completely open bloom. It will not open more and it's normal. The stamens and the pistil are apparent.
The open bloom is approximately 9 cm long and approximately 5 mm maximum wide.
Disocactus quezaltecus is a not very common species in collection. It should be recognized that its blooming, although original, is not especially spectacular. I bought the plant in 1995 in an international meeting for cacti fans. Since this time I haven’t seen it for sale in this meeting any more. It spent several years to be established in my collection, then it started to bloom after being repotted in a most organic compost than the compost in which it was when I bought it. Then, for reasons that I badly understand, it started to suffer necrosis. I had to propagate it by cuttings. To my great delight, it has just bloomed again this spring 2017.
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