The second installment in the I-wish-it-would-be-summer-soon photo series features a flowering Opuntia 'Claude Arno'. The flowers are a distinct rosy red with a pearly sheen.
Opuntia 'Claude Arno' flower close-up
I bought the plant as a cutting from Bennys Kaktus a couple of years ago and it flowered for the first time last summer. According to Benny this cultivar is a hybrid of Opuntia fragilis and Opuntia polyacantha var. rhodantha.
Flowering Opuntia 'Claude Arno'
The pictures can also be seen as a fitting celebration of today’s vernal equinox ;-)
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