crested flowers on astro

[Carlo & Daniele]

It's not so common happening, this plant once made a crested flower:



the flower bud:

[marazz53]

Hi C&D, Lovely...

[sclero1]

wow is fantastic the caput crested flower!!!!

[marazz53]

Hi sclero1, THANKS for your appreciation. Thanks Daniele for fixing my photos...

[sclero1]

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

[marazz53]

Hi sclero1, that's good. Good luck...

[cortona]

usualy just the grafted dcm produce crested flowers, that is my one

i think it is not a genetic dependent trait but more an effect of the fraft stock power

[Ariocarpus]

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:

[Simon]

Never seen a crest flower on the other astros but it seems ACM does it quite often.
Here is one of mine.

[Carlo & Daniele]

Wow! Huge flower and pistil!

[Astro]

My Onzuka 3 ribs

[Astro]

myrio cv

[Carlo & Daniele]

Great plants! Nice to see so many crested flowers on different cultivars!

[Carlo & Daniele]

the same plant with a huge crested flower this time: