1. The Exquisite Hall
The Temple of Ingenuity is widely distributed, from the Mexican state of Tamoipas (17), Palmillas, the northern state of Nuevo León (16), galliana (19), and the south to the state of San Luis Potosí (20) near Cerritos, growing on gravel soils, lava, breccia (stones with corners cemented by finer materials) or limestone.
Discover the exquisite temple in San Luis Potosí in a wild state
Elaborate temple cultivation is not difficult, but alkaline soil is needed to reach its full potential, as it grows on gravel limestone, usually on slopes; adding a third or more of limestone debris to the soil mixture will help it grow and ensure strong drainage. The Exquisite Hall has formed several different populations with different characteristics. In the eastern part of the distribution range.
The delicate temple is white to creamy, sometimes with a pale pink top or a purple-red midbelly. Around the southern part of the village of Cerritos in San Luis Potosí, the population has large flowers, up to 5 cm or more, predominantly white, with a pale pink throat, and plant heights of up to 5 cm or more in the area.
A hybrid appeared between the White Flower Delicate Hall population near the village of Santa Rita Tmombergen in San Luis Potosí and the Pale Pink Flower Exquisite Hall population near the village of Nova León Galeana, almost mistakenly named a species. At present, only the population of magenta flowers dominated by delicate temples has been found in the central area of the villages of Arroyobos and Mienolega in Nuevo León, which can be counted as a separate subspecies.
The temple of magenta flowers
The delicate hall is 3 cm long and 2.5–5 cm wide (rarely more than 5 cm) and has a typical elongated linear wart spot, 2.5–3.5 mm long and about 0.5 mm wide. The spines are comb-shaped, slightly curved at the apex, and radially distributed. The length is between 0.5 and 1.8 mm, the flowers are mainly white, usually with light to dark magenta or violet, etc., or dark magenta, depending on the population, the flower type is more or less funnel-shaped, 20-35 mm long. 18–55 mm wide, the outer petals are tinged with brown-magenta or complete magenta, or crimson-violet, also depending on the population, with a stigma white to pale yellow. The fruit is slightly green to dark reddish brown or brown, and the seeds are black, 1.2-1.4 mm.
2. Thang Long Pill
Thang Long Maru, 30 years of flowering age horticultural cultivation
The Thang Long Pill is famous for being discovered 80 years ago in the Mexican state of Tamoipas, in La Perdida, near Mikiwana, inhabiting rock crevices on low hillsides. Thang Long Maru has been collected in large quantities, and in the 1980s, 7,000 plants were reportedly removed from the Site of La Perdida in Mexico, so much so that almost no plants have survived there. Over the next few years, however, it was restored in another nearby location. It is hoped that the export restrictions imposed by the Mexican authorities over the past few decades have protected these plant populations and that they will be reinvented.
Thang Long Pill in the wild state
In cultivation, it is one of the most difficult varieties to grow per plant, it is easy to grow in groups, it will slowly grow in groups to more than 50 heads, as long as it will be paved with 15 cm diameter pots in about 10 years.
It is recommended to use alkaline, gravel-like soil mixtures for growing medium, and watering should not be too much, see dry to wet.
Subspecies 1 Anderson pills ssp. Andersonii
Discovered in 1996 by botanist Mr. Ted Anderson in The State of San Luis near Guadalcazar, Mexico, the Anderson pill grows on steep rocky slopes like other cacti, making them difficult to spot without flowering. It, like many plants in the genus, is a small cactus ball, no more than a few centimeters in diameter, and the limestone rocks of the anderson pill mimic the surroundings, and seek refuge under shrubs or agave plants. During the artificial cultivation process, it is not difficult to grow, and gardening products are easily available to enthusiasts. Like most cacti, it prefers a mixture of grit, alkaline soils. Anderson pills are basically solitary, spherical, about 40-55 mm wide and 60 mm long, green, and their spheres hardly protrude from the soil level. There are white fluffy wart spots, bare. In infancy the spines are 5-8, growing laterally, with only one or sometimes two central spines, pale yellowish and curved upwards, 2–3 mm long. The flowers are funnel-shaped, about 2 cm long and 2 cm wide, pale pink with a dark pink in the middle. The fruit is brown, the seeds are black, about 1 mm.
Subspecies 2 Twilight Maru ssp. bonatzi
Twilight Maru was found in a crack in limestone in the mountains near Serritos, San Luis, Mexico.
Twilight Maru has been widely bred by enthusiasts from seeds and grafts and is now readily available. It is not one of the fastest growing varieties, but it blooms at a very young age with bright petals. Flowers are similar to sSPs. Klingerianus, the plant as a whole is hemispherical, dark green stem, 15-20 mm in diameter, 30-50 mm thick in roots, cone-shaped. Bulbs brown; flowers are about 10 mm long and 12–15 mm wide, the fruit is reddish brown, the outer petals are light brown, there is a dark brown in the middle, the inner petals are dark white, the outer petals have brown stripes, the interior has pink stripes, the throat is distinctly dark pink, the fruit brown to pink, and the seeds are dark brown to black 1.8xI.0 mm. It has no difficulty in cultivation, although its growth rate seems to be slower, and its limestone-rich ecological habitat suggests the need for an alkaline, grit-like soil mixture, which is advocated by most plants of the genus.
Subspecies 3 Long-spined Asspleur Pills ssp. gracilis
The Long Thorn Thang Long Pill was found in a crack in a rocky strip northeast of Aramberri, in the Mexican state of Nuevo León. Its slender paper spines resemble a thin bone needle and need to be viewed closely through a magnifying glass. In cultivation, it grows slowly and rarely sees group growth. As with most petunids, a mixture of gravel, alkaline soil is recommended to maintain drainage efficiency.
Long-spined Thang Long Dragon Pill shot in the wild
Long-spined Aspiragon Pills are 15-20 mm in diameter and bright, gray-green. The spines are thin and papery, the longest central spine is about 19–23 mm long, the flowers are narrow funnel-shaped, 2 cm long and 1.5 cm in diameter, the outer petals are white, the middle petals are pale green brown to green cherry, the inner petals are pure white, or the middle petals are pink, and the stigma lobes are white. The fruit is small, tan, spherical, with small seeds, black, about 1 m long and 0.5 mm wide.
Subspecies 4 Ujo Maru ssp. klinkerianus
Some scholars in Uchimaru once thought the habitat "may have been Tamaipas," but botanists Glass and Foster were skeptical, adding that "this was only found in Potosí, St. Louis, in and around the Huizache hub." This point has been confirmed by the positivist Manuel Sotomayor and his companions that it is endemic to San Luis Potosí and is found in a large area southwest of Matevara, roughly bordering Ranegreta in the north and Czarco Blanco in the south, and a line between the Western Las Pilas Mountains to the southern Salitriros Mountains. Ujo maru is also a well-known subspecies that has been growing in captivity for many years without any difficulty, seems to be tolerant of any soil mixture, and can grow into at least six group plants in about 6 to 8 years.
Discovered in St. Louis the wild state of Ujo Maru
Growing medium is still recommended to use a grit-like soil mixture and not to water it haphazardly. Uzumaki maru is 3 cm tall and 4 cm wide, green to brown. There are 3 spines, the tip of the spine is brown, the bend is not sharp. The flowers are 14 mm wide in length and have pure white petals on the inside and dark mid petals on the outside. The fruit is green to brown, the seeds are black, 0.8-1.0 mm.
Subspecies 5 Yacheng Pills ssp. macrochele
The habitat of this species is also in St. Louis, and the environment and growing medium are the same.
Horticultural plants are grouped with Tooth City Pills
The picture below is a very rare pink flower tooth city pill (flower color variation)
Subspecies 6 Out of the City Pill ssp. rioverdensis
Inhabiting Potosí near the town of Rio Verde, Ino Luis, Mexico, maru has no difficulties in cultivation, growing at a rate similar to that of other petrelians, which, like them, grow in limestone rocky soils, and it is recommended to grow coarse sand alkaline soil mixtures.
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