![]() ![]() Feather Flower : has colourful fringed petals. Elephant Skin : has a bumpy elephant-like skin. Alpus : the of rib tips (bearing the line of areoles) are more or less deeply seated within the plants body, while the suture line between the ribs is turned outward and more or less expanded creating odd and unique shapes. ![]() Petals are shaded in dark pinkish-red, orange-red or purple wine-red with usually even darker flower edges. Akabana : (Akabana Kabuto) Its flowers are red, which is very uncharacteristic of this genus. However a very few pink flowered specimens will appear time by time among normal yellow flowered plants. roseiflorum Frič : Selected form with pink coloured flowers. : This form varies from the typical Astrophytum asterias for the tendency to branch forming small side pups from the areole. : has nude ribs of a bright orange-red colour due to the absence (or reduced production) of chlorophyll pigments. : Nude mutant completely lacking chlorophyll pigment. Ruri Kabuto) This form has a very characteristic glabrous stem lacking the white tufts of loose hairy scales typical of the common Astrophytum asterias. : The crested form only deviate from the typical form for the stem which is fan shaped up to 30 cm (or more ) in diameter with age. The result is a completely yellow or yellow-orange plant. : Mutant completely lacking chlorophyll pigment. Only in cultivation plants may have a spherical till columnar shape. ![]() Just flat to the ground surface, the plant body grows on the native habitat practically complete buried. Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Astrophytum asterias group The areoles are normally 10 mm apart, but can be very close one to each other in older specimens.įlowers: At the apex from the vegetation point, up to 75 mm in diameter. Hairy scales: Large dense, white to pale brownish, velvety, almost concealing the epidermis.Īreoles: Round, cream-colored till brownish up to 6 in diameter. Ribs: Generally it has eight flat ribs, rare few or more. Ribs: The main particularity of this cultivar are the tip of the rib that are more or less deeply seated within the plants body, while the suture line between the ribs is turned outward. When young is quite similar in shape to an ordinary "Super Kabuto". The dilatation of the median lines between areoles varies a lot among specimens and enhances as the plants age, in some cases the suture line expands outward enormously creating odd and unique shapes. The result is an unique starry-looking white and furry plant. The distinctive characteristic of this cultivars is that the rib-tips (bearing the line of areoles) are more or less deeply seated within the plants body, while the suture line between the ribs is turned outward and more or less expanded. Alpus is a very nice and distinguishing star shaped and woollier form of Astrophytum asterias cv. multicostatum hort.ĭescription: Astrophytum asterias cv. Goryo Kabuto (Five Ribs) + Ruri + Fukuryiu + Ooibo ![]()
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