Notocactus

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:44 am

Notocactus.

DaveW

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:17 am

Beautiful!

I appreciate Notocactus flower very much. They have nice pastel colour cross-fades.

Bruce Williams · Post by **Bruce Williams** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:11 pm

Great photo Dave - pin sharp with gorgeous colours beautifully framed against the pure black background. Impressive DOF too.

First thought was N. rutilans but the stamens seem rather long?

Bruce

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:21 pm

Without looking Bruce I think it was N. purpureus which is quite variable in flower colour from almost apricot to pinky-red. You may remember all the names that were going around for plants close to this when you were collecting like N. muegelianus, N. horstii etc. Reason I did not want to put the name on is I had not checked the plant in the greenhouse because these shots were taken early last year and I did not want to mislead. I will have to do a check.

All the best,

DaveW

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:45 pm

Beautiful Dave. Everything is gorgeous

Please don`t make me start collecting more plants

cactuspic · Post by **cactuspic** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:34 am

Great shot Dave. I see your're a dinosaur like me and like the old name of notocactus.

Irwin

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:39 am

Old habits die hard Irwin. Parodia is the oldest name if they are combined and I suppose Parodia's generally are high altitude Notocactus, or are Notocactus low altitude Parodias?

Depends if you prefer Notocactus meaning "southern-cactus" or Parodia named after a gentleman named Parodi.

Keep your labels long enough and like women's fashions the names will be resurrected again!

Somebody on another site thought I had used a ring flash because of the black background. All the pictures were taken with available light, the background is a scrap of black velvet to produce a jet black, hopefully non-reflective, background. Don't know about in the US but you cannot seem to get any black velvet in the UK now, it seems to have gone out of fashion for womens clothes etc. I was after around a square meter of it but could not even find it on the Internet! I understand there is some foam core board available that is pretty good though?

DaveW