Cactus flowers are beautiful and fragrant, bloom frequently, and are among the most popular potted treasures.

Introduction

Green potted plants are essential accents for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: they beautify the room and delight the mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1272" introduces you to one of the most popular cacti.

Today's Featured Plant

Cacti have attractive round bodies and are easy to grow, making them very common potted plants for homes and offices. Today we introduce one of the varieties most welcomed by flower enthusiasts: Echinopsis tubiflora, which is inexpensive and performs excellently, and is the cactus variety most widely grown by plant lovers.

Echinopsis tubiflora

Echinopsis tubiflora, a type of hedgehog cactus and a variety of Echinopsis multiplex, has a green, cylindrical body with neatly arranged ribs. Older plants tend to form clusters. The body is 12-15 cm in diameter and 20-25 cm tall, grows rapidly, and can quickly develop a very attractive body. Its flowering period runs from late spring to early autumn.

Beautiful flower shape

Echinopsis tubiflora not only has a dignified and beautiful body, but its flowers are also very lovely. The flowers are funnel-shaped in white, pink and other colors, resembling lotus blossoms and giving a very ethereal beauty. Its flowers also give off a very pleasant delicate fragrance, which is rarely seen in other cacti.

Frequent bloomer

Most cacti do not bloom most of the time, but Echinopsis tubiflora is different. This variety blooms every year, and the larger the body, the more flower stalks it produces. It can bloom once it reaches more than 5 cm in diameter. Although individual flowers last only a few days, the flowering frequency is fairly high, and it often blooms in summer and autumn.

Super easy to grow

Echinopsis tubiflora is very robust, drought-tolerant and fairly cold-tolerant. When water is withheld, it can withstand low temperatures of -10°C. It is not afraid of sun in summer and has low soil requirements, making it very easy to grow. The body readily produces offsets, and any one broken off and placed on soil will survive. It is very easy to grow.

PS: To grow cacti well, they must be kept in an environment with sufficient light. Insufficient light will cause spindly growth and result in no flowers or few flowers. Cacti are succulents, and their bodies store plenty of water, so there is no need to water them every day; watering once every eight to ten days is no problem.