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[Maxuel Powers III]

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Edited March 5, 2016 by Maxuel Powers III

[MrDoRight]

I've got an enchinopsis dominoes cutting or rotted plant . I've got PC pachanoi cuttings . Prints , books , idk what else you'd be interested in that I have . Black light posters

[RogerColgreen]

Hi Max,

I currently have two varieties of Pereskia.

The first is, I think, the standard rootstock, P. spathulata. I got this by degrafting a grafted Astrophytum from Europe. Have about 8 pieces going now, and seedlings ready to graft onto it.

The leaves are succulent, about 1 1/4" long, by 1/2" wide. The stems have stayed small so far.

It looks like this:

http://cactiguide.com/graphics/p_spathulata_a_600.jpg

The second is a famous old tree at a local university. It's a weird form of P. grandifolia, where there is fruit on fruit on fruit on fruit. The tree is 30' tall, and the leaves can be 8" x 3". BIG trusses of pink flowers, long spines. It's a MONSTER plant.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pereskia_grandifolia

Here you see the fruit, but not the long chains of fruit.

Here's the big heads of pink flowers.

http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/content/rose-cactus.htm

The pereskias I'm looking for are:
P. bleo, with the red flowers

http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/bioinformatics/dfmfiles/files/c/31510/31510.jpg

P. aculeata, the "Barbados goose-berry" with good yellow fruit.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EXOTIC-FRUIT-CACTI-Pereskia-aculeata-gold-cactus-plant-vine-climber-4-pot-G-/151073743512

Do you have pictures of yours? Do they have any special virtues, fruit, flower, or as a rootstock?

---Roger Colgreen