hanazono kabuto

[Frank]

The character of hanazono is normally appeared when a plant became a mature age.
When you grafted the plant, the character would appear earlier and  was exaggerated.
The history of hanazono cultivar is unknown.

Grafted plant (with a short stock buried in pottingmix)

Own-root  seedlings

super kabuto seedlings
Starting to show hanazono character

[sharkxing]

[Carlo & Daniele]

Really nice plants Frank and sharkxing!
superkabuto hanazono are really nice and not easy to find or obtain, these are two seedlings from superkabuto hanazono as motherplant:

[cortona]

that is my ungrafted hanazonokabuto

that is one of the grafted

this for me is the first year i can obtain seeds from my plants so i'm very in hury to sow it!

[fanecchissimo]

i do have one wich is a little fertile as female, not so marked but produced to me some tenth seedlings as female.. will see how they do grow. not grafting them for now.

will post photo asap

[vandessel1962]

hanazono with flowers !

[Frank]

This is own root hanazono kabuto.
It has started to show hanazono chracter and to increase number of ribs.
The current size is 15 cm diameter but I hope it reches to 20 cm or more.
When you crossed so many time, the body of kabuto became smaller.
I think this one was not crossed so many times.

[cortona]

ooohhhhh sooo beautiful...the big size caracter is something i hope to find in my plants...i dislike so much the ones that are undersized, it looks so ..miserable...

[xwa27]

[dag]

Sandro, THE star shaped ones are really impressive.

[fanecchissimo]

i think that a part of size is epigenetic (pump it and give it time! ), but effectively i do have some SK with are now growing taller, and not larger...

so probably some genetic traits are involved...

i noticed that most of star flat asterias grow bigger than the normal ones... is this the reason for their price?

[marazz53]

@ Frank, sharkxing, vandessel1962:, xwa27 and cortona.  C & D, yours are promising too.

Beautiful plants guys...

[Frank]

The original miracle kabuto was star shape, a large plant.
http://www.shaboten.com/Pict/miracle0.jpg
I think star shaped kabutos are mixed with some miracle gene in history.
Whey your crossed kabutos manytimes, plant size becomes small.
All Japanese kabutos have been crossed manytimes already and body sizes are small.
They have tried to regain size and started to use Calles kabuto (F1).

[Nata Ellis]

colour variation...

[kikko]

one of mine..

[kikko]

[fanecchissimo]

@ Parchis

nice nice nice nice nice nice!

[AstrophytumCultivars.com]

Here is mine:



Parents are JAPAN imports

[Carlo & Daniele]

superkabuto V-type hanazono

[xwa27]