It's not so common happening, this plant once made a crested flower:
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ZbPcBQgNxXc/Su2hxKIK7FI/AAAAAAAAACs/BpYspDxxsjU/s512/CIMG2082.JPG)
the flower bud:
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-sSwSuSj4q9g/Su2hsVgz9aI/AAAAAAAAACo/AsbHQVHNqgw/s576/CIMG2051.JPG)
Hi C&D, Lovely...
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-H1XRmjMIaqY/TAV93ZxJeuI/AAAAAAAAT-k/JQk5khuSyDs/s640/52-Astrophytum-caput-medusae.jpg)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-UDbtolNKIYs/TAV93SNpZVI/AAAAAAAAT-s/8xfocC6K-U0/s640/54-Astrophytum-caput-medusae.jpg)
wow is fantastic the caput crested flower!!!! :)
Hi sclero1, THANKS for your appreciation. Thanks Daniele for fixing my photos...
yes i can see better :)
in past i received from a friend, some seeds born from a crested digitostigma flower.
now i have seedling, i hope when they became big, to oblain some plants with crested flower ;)
Hi sclero1, that's good. Good luck...
usualy just the grafted dcm produce crested flowers, that is my one
(https://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm4/cortonafoto/fotomix006.jpg)
i think it is not a genetic dependent trait but more an effect of the fraft stock power
Thank you for sharing this pictures!
You can find crested flowers from astrophytum caput medusae in the KuaS 10/2010 from me.
This year I have a crested flower on a astrophytum asterias cv. supercabuto, an old plant (deep graft). It`s one of the first plants in Germany and a few years old.
Look at it:
(https://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/13/57/22/87/p1050044.jpg) (http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1566&u=13572287)
Never seen a crest flower on the other astros but it seems ACM does it quite often.
Here is one of mine.
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3358/3427596250_1bd1c9c94c_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/36369542@N04/3427596250/)
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/36369542@N04/3427596250/)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3645/3427596256_4542aa7efe_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/36369542@N04/3427596256/)
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/36369542@N04/3427596256/)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3556/3427596252_ee165637c6_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/36369542@N04/3427596252/)
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/36369542@N04/3427596252/)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3633/3427596262_281685bb09_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/36369542@N04/3427596262/)
Wow! Huge flower and pistil!
My Onzuka 3 ribs
myrio cv
Great plants! Nice to see so many crested flowers on different cultivars!
the same plant with a huge crested flower this time:
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-yxIEP5GcveE/T_2SiTBkqWI/AAAAAAAAGgM/2Ss_XrPPidE/s509/110720121014.jpg)