Cacti are plants characterized by several things, but one of the most interesting is to produce very beautiful flowers (and not very durable, yes). An example of this is the matucana intertexta, a succulent cactus that will make anyone fall in love with its petals.
With a minimum of care you can be healthy throughout your life. Do you want to meet her? Let's go there 🙂.
Origin and characteristics
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La matucana intertexta It is an endemic cactus from Peru, specifically from Cajamarca. Its body is fleshy, with a green globose-cylindrical shape, with 15-25 ribs with white areoles from which 8-12 radial spines emerge at first brown and then gray. The central spines, 1 to 2 in number, are somewhat thicker. The flowers sprout from the top of the plant, and they can be red or orange.
One of the many good things about it is that it starts to flourish at a very young age, so you won't have to wait long to enjoy them.
What are their cares?
If you get a copy, we recommend that you provide the following care:
- Location: outside, in full sun. If it has been grown in a greenhouse or in semi-shade, it must be accustomed to the star king little by little and gradually.
- Earth:
- Pot: universal growing substrate mixed with perlite in equal parts.
- Garden: it can grow in all types of soils that have good drainage.
- Irrigation: once or twice a week and every 10-15 days the rest of the year.
- Subscriber: from early spring to late summer with specific fertilizers for cacti following the indications specified on the package.
- Multiplication: by seeds in spring-summer. Direct sowing in a nursery with universal culture substrate mixed with perlite in equal parts.
- Rusticity: it does not support cold or frost.
What did you think of matucana intertexta? Did you know her?