Echinopsis 'Arabesque'
7th July 2018
Bought from Ian Robinson at a BCSS meeting. Hybrid raised by Bob Schick (Schick 1249-27) with large flowers that are pale orange on the inside, shading to
pink at the margins of the petals. The Huntington Botanical Garden list describes it as:
Flower fragrant, to 4 inches (10 cm) across. Petals broadly obovate to nearly orbicular, mucronate, with prominent ruffles, bicolored pink to light magenta and yellow.
Throat-circle white. Filaments light yellow. Stigma dark green. Flowers fragrant.
Stem dark green, semicolumnar, to 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter; areoles relatively large and closely spaced, often separated by less than their diameter, central spines to 3/4 inch (2 cm) long.
The unusual flower of 'Arabesque' resembles that of a double, picoteed tuberous begonia. ISI 99-4; HBG 82616, Schick 1249-27.
References:
Huntington Botanic Gardens, San Marino, California, www.huntington.org/