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Crested pereskiopsis from a neglected pereskiopsis

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Hello friends. Long time no post.

So I was looking at my plants that have been rather neglected due to a new job and other things keeping me busy and I noticed this crested pereskiopsis. Pretty cool. I am rooting for it to continue like this, but I am guessing it'll split into several heads at some point.

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Very cool! But so is all the other backgroundery. Hope it stays crested... Fingers crossed :)

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Shit yeah, is that a Cintia knizei in the background grafted?!!?

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And black arios??!! What have you got going on there dude!!

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^^^^^^^^^^

yeah that... I was wonderin if those were lophophoras but cintia seems like better guess

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fasciation disorder. It had never occurred to me until now that 'crested' cacti are due to fasciation, but it makes sense, I guess I'm just used to seeing it in non cacti plants and considering it as something undesirable

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I have always found fasciation to produce interesting plants, though I can see how it would be undesirable in most commercial/agricultural/industrial etc. contexts. I most often see it in wild mullein where the tip of the flower spike will crest and form broad fans that I think have visual appeal.

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