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lovestogarden

My Southern California (zone 10a) garden has all kinds of plants mixed together; roses, ferns, succulents, vegetables,....

Plant Name Cereus repandus syn. Cereus peruvianus

 

Peruvian Apple Cactus

  • Season Icon Mid SummerMid Summer 2022
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Cereus repandus syn. Cereus peruvianus

  • Season Icon Mid SummerMid Summer 2022
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lovestogarden

Early is the key to find these #cactus flowers before they droop with the sun. #peruvianapplecactus #applecactus #flower #southerncalifornia #cereusrepandus #cereus 19 August 2022

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sunlovin

How big is yours?🌞

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lovestogarden

About 5" across. @sunlovin

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sunlovin

I mean how tall is the cactus?🌞

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lovestogarden

Oh, πŸ€£πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜‚. It is about 10'+ . I only got this πŸ“Έ because it set a flower at the base. The rest were way to high. It has an apple up high too. @sunlovin

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sunlovin

How cool. Mine is about 5’ tall and has 5 stems. But no flowers yet. I’m wondering what it takes to get flowers. πŸ€”πŸŒž

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lovestogarden

No idea. Sun and drought. That is what I seem to offer mine. πŸ˜‰ Scroll back and you can see mine a few years ago. I have successfully started cactus from the seeds of the apples. They are cute and now about 5" tall at the tallest. @sunlovin

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sunlovin

Ok thanks. Sun and drought it gets, but it’s getting a lot of rain now, so maybe that will change things. πŸ€” @lovestogarden

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lovestogarden

Rain! 🀀 That may do it. I would love to have rain. Enjoy and give it a good lecture to get its act together. πŸ˜‰πŸ’ž @sunlovin

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