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When I bought it at my local BCSS group meeting it was called Sulcorebutia roberto-vasquezii, a name that seemed filled with hispanic romance. Weingartia crispata has less drama somehow.
Notwithstanding, it is a very attractive small plant with white flowers. Plants of the World online says (as it does for most of the Weingartia: "The native range of this species is Bolivia. It is a succulent subshrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome." Which just emphasises how similar they all are and how they all grow in the same, rather resticted, habitat. The Llifle encyclopedia says: " Sulcorebutia roberto-vasquezii is found in the Bolivian Department of Chuquisaca, 1300-1400 meters above sea level. This species grows on stony-rocky slopes. Solitary except in case of injury to the growing tip, flattened globular, up to 5 cm tall and 6 to 10 cm across. Buds often numerous greenish to reddish-brownish, borne on the sides or at the base of the stems from older areoles. The flowers are fragrant up to 23-30 mm long and 35-45 mm across. They are often white to creamy, sometimes rose-violet in the outside and white inside (rarely completely rose-violet with salmon shades)." |
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