Hedgehog Fruit Growing Enormous

Echinocereus grandiflora hybrid
These large hedgehog cacti that get dozens, even hundreds of blooms, also get pollinated by our bees. The bees love them. And so we get fruit. And seeds.
If you let a hybrid get hybridized with other hybrids and go to seed, well then you don’t know what you’re going to get, now do you? That’s how I like it. That’s why we don’t attach cultivar names to our grandifloras, or a lot of our other hybridized cacti - hybridizing is so simply a natural process that the results really are just individuals. They vary! what a shock. It’s all good.
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August 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Some fruit of cacti are quite beautiful, others not so much. Like this one. It looks like a Teratoma tumor, comprised of hair, teeth and claw nails.
Aiyana
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:40 am
It’s not ripe yet. Soon enough…