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Hybrid

Suzy Q

Suzy Q is reportedly a flowering Cactus Ron raised from seed, with an a generation back in its ancestry. The flowers are reportedly the point of it: very large, opening from deep pink buds, pink inside and out.

  • six inches thick
  • basal pups

HybridNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.

At a glance

In the yard

Family line

Reportedly an intergeneric hybrid: an Echinopsis sits one generation further back.

The longer version

Suzy Q is reportedly a colourful flowering hybrid grown from seed by Cactus Ron, with an Echinopsis a generation back in its ancestry. It reportedly makes a columnar plant that reaches roughly six inches thick, freely from the base, and carries spines that emerge red and age to a blackish red. The flowers are reportedly the point of it: very large, deep pink in bud and pink inside and out. Its immediate parents are reportedly not named.

Species: reportedly an intergeneric hybrid, a flowering with an Echinopsis grandparent.

Character

Growth habit
Reportedly a columnar plant that thickens to around six inches and regularly throws several pups.
Drawing of a cross: one column carrying a rounded, nearly spineless habit on one side and a deeply notched, long-spined one on the other.
A hybrid column, drawn — not a photograph of this plant.

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