8 Years Old
Astrophytum myrio cv ooibo
Description:
Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Bishop’s Cap, Bishop’s Miter, Bishop’s hat, Monk’s Hood, Deacons Hat, Bishop’s Hood, Miter Cactus
DUTCH (Nederlands): Bisschopsmuts, Sterplanten
FRENCH (Français): Plante étoile
GERMAN (Deutsch): Zahllospunctirter Igelcactus, Punkt-Sterncactus, Mitra, Bischofsmütze Kaktus, Bischofsmütze
HUNGARIAN (Magyar): Csillagkaktusz
ITALIAN (Italiano): Cappello del Vescovo, Cappello del Prete, Berretta da Prete
JAPANESE (日本語): Rampo, アストロフィトゥム, Rampow
LITHUANIAN (Lietuvių): Žvaigždinas
MASRY (مصرى): استروفياتوم
SPANISH (Español): Gajitos, Mitra, Bonete de Obispo, Peyotillo, Peyote Cimarron, Biznaga, Algononcillo de Mitra, Birrete de Obispo, Planta estrella
SWEDISH (Svenska): Biskopsmössa kaktus, Biskopskaktus, Biskopsmössa
TARAHUMARA: Híkuri cimarrón
For More Inforamtion Astrophytum
Information: Astrophytum myriostigma (many dotted) is a spineless succulent plant, usually solitary or with very few basal branches. A transverse section of the stem reveal a perfect star shaped form (like the common star-fish) giving the plant the appearance of a bishop’s mitre (hence the common name Bishop’s cap)
Stem: Globular to cylindric up to 60(-100) cm tall (but occasionally up 150 cm tall) and 10-20 cm in diameter, bright green, covered with many minute white hairy scales that give it a characteristic chalk-white or silvery-grey appearance, but sometime naked. The scales are composed of very fine interwoven hairs, which, under a microscope, are very pretty object.
Roots: Fine, fibrous.
Areoles: Closed together
Spines: Wanting.
Ribs: Usually 5, sometimes 4(or 3) that increase to eight or more with age ( rarely even 10), vertical, regular, deep, prominent, very broad and acute.
Flowers: Funnelform, 4-7 cm long glossy yellow and sweet scented from the areole at the tip of the stem on mature plant. Outer perianth segments narrow, with brown scarious tips. Inner perianth segments numerous, oblong yellow with a silky shine. Scales on ovary tube scaroious, imbricated, very narrow often bristly tipped, with long wool in their axil.
Blooming season: A. myriostigma seems to flower independently of day length, flowering asynchronously and intermittently throughout the warm months from the end of winter to the start of autumn. Plants may take up to six years to flower.
Fruit: 2-2,5 cm in diameter, greenish to tannish-red, covered with brown, overlapping scales, with long wool in their axil.
Seeds: Dark brown, helmet-shaped, shining, with a large depressed hilum, the margins being turned in.
Astrophytum myriostigma var. nudum (nude form also known as “Hekiran” in Japanese speech) is very similar to the other myriostigma, it only deviate from the well-known typical form for lacking or mostly lacking white flecks, giving a bright green, blue-green, gray-green or mauve-green color overall depending on clones.
It is by some considered an extreme form of the subspecies potosinus.
Stem: Spherical to shortly columnar with age. The stems is smooth and can be over 120 cm tall and 5-10 cm in diameter and are shaped like a bishop’s headpiece or a star.
Spines: None.
Ribs: The number of ribs vary from 3 to 8 (usually 5).
Flowers: 5 cm in length, pale-yellow, silk-shining unlike the white-spotted plant, occasionally with an orange gloom.
Blooming season: Spring or early summer, They take up to 6 years to bloom.
Fruits: Dry, dehisces towards the apex forming about 5 star shaped lobes. With few seeds.
Please Note
This product will be hand delivered to your doorstep.
The image is for reference only.
Please take out the plant from the box immediately after receiving and water it as required.
Water the soil, not the leaves and flowers.
Keep it away from direct sunlight. Avoid placing plants in trouble spots, such as near heat or air conditioning ducts.
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