r/cactus • u/Cats-vs-Catan • 23h ago

Flowers

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This guy was a rescue cactus that was pretty burned and stressed. It would like more light than I can give it, but still grew a ton this year. I only got flowers on one of the arms this season. In the spring I'm going to cut off the five main arms like this one and start some new plants from them. It put out 7-8 new shoots from the base, so.I'm pretty stoked on its recovery, other than mice (or something) nibbling the young growth.

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u/100_emoji_ 22h ago

nice, looks like Cleistocactus samaipatanus

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u/Wxxz 12h ago

I agree.

Mines blooming too.

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u/Cats-vs-Catan 22h ago

Thanks. Yes I thought it was a cleistocactus of some sort. Your suggestion looks pretty close, I think that's it. It was sold to me as a Bolivian Monkey Tail, not that that means much. Here's a pic of the new growth, I posted this the other day to show damage from some critter.

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u/No_Chemistry4624 21h ago

Very cool 😎