Cereus

Columnar, yeah.

Uh, and Cereus stenogons and, um, there was another one, too.

I forget.

Anyway, but so this is the landscape, and then there's this little fucking aroid that looks like a skunk cabbage.

Buddleja tucumanensis.

Okay, let's rewind a little bit though before, before we talk about Blasfeldia, 'cause we went through these incredible cactus forests that we didn't even, we didn't even touch upon yet.

Cactus, you know, you- you're, you're mainly hitting Cereus, Cereus hancianus and Harrisia tetracantha, the two most colum- the two most common columnar cacti that can both get very large in Bolivia.

And then you go far enough inland, you start encountering Neorimandia, which is fucking massive.

And see those flat ones? They're flapjacks and beaver tails.

Yes, I know, but I was hoping you would have some kinds of Cereus.

Oh, I have.

I got them growing in a window box inside the house.

Plants get more sun from that side of the house.

There.

I bet you've never seen any Cereus prettier than those.

They're beautiful, such lovely colors.

Stanhopeus, Ludomanius, Asinatus, and some other orchids which produce their flower spikes directly from the base of the growth must be grown in baskets to admit of the proper production of their flowers, which, if grown in pots, are sent down into the compost and lost.

Gongorus, Cereus, and similar genera, which produce slender spikes of flowers of drooping habit, are also best in baskets, as they produce their flowers much more freely when the plants are suspended.

The orchid pan for suspending is also equally good for Mestivalias of the Chimera section, a large number of bubble films and several petalums, and generally for plants of small stature which would be too far away from the glass if placed on the stage.

For the bulk of the collection, the grower has to use the ordinary flower pots, which are still unsurpassed for general purposes.