Dear all
i'm totaly fall in love for a cv that i've see in a japanese webpage:
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~hama-jj/visit_17_23.htm
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~hama-jj/visit_8_14.html
anybody know the japanese name of this cultivar and/or wen to buy seeds for it?
it is realy realy greath looking!
Great plants!
It must be a astrophytum asterias cv. supercabuto star shape
But where you can get plants or seed I didn`t know.
I`m also searching a long time this plants! It`s hard...
this plant there really is a dream....... ;D
sadly no Ariocarpus, it si not only a star shape sk that is not so difficult to find around(not so easy anyway) if you look the size are enormous....25 cm is something i can gve away my littlest finger for! ;-) especialy the second one are realy realy fantastic, like the grow at the end of the mid ribs that are like bumps! japanese are realy in another planet talking about astros!
http://www.kabutokyou.com/2011/05/04/doi-05.JPG
one more
dag
These 3 kabutos are owned by Mr. Doi who is the president of Nishi Mikawa Cactus Club, near Nagoya.
The top one is a star shaped super kabuto. The seedling came from Mr. Ogiwara who is Vice President of Japan kabuto enthusiatic assosiation (Nippon Kabuto Kyoukai).
The plant is very close to the original one and grown larger. The current super kabuto is crossed repeatedly and body size has become smaller.
2nd and 3rd ones are normal kabuto but this means they are not normal asterias.
There is no normal asterias in Japan. I think they are normal white kabutos.
Kabuto will be the best looking age when plant is around 10 years old and deteriorate later. I think they are around 20 years olds.
If you kept own rooted kabuto for 20 years, your kabuto will be similar shape anyhow.
Japanese use Calles kabuto (F1) to re-gain the size.
dear Frank i've re read this topic and im really interested about Calles Kabuto, can you give us some more info about this unknow(for me at least) Kabuto? were is the origin of this asterias strain?