Cactus Echinopsis Tubiflora

Echinopsis Tubiflora, known by the scientific synonym Cereus Tubiflorus, is native to Argentina. When small, it is a globular cactus with a slower growth and can reach thirty centimeters in height. They usually grow alone, sometimes if in their optimal conditions they will grow into colonies.

Flowering usually occurs when spring ends and summer begins. Its flowers are elongated, funnel-shaped and can be of different colors: white, yellow, or pink. They tend to be very large flowers compared to the size of the cactus, they can protrude twenty-five centimeters above the plant and can reach fifteen centimeters in diameter. They open after sunset, when it begins at night and last between one and two days. It takes two to three years to flower since they are planted.

It is a perfectly tolerant species that is exposed to direct sunlight, but if for whatever reason you cannot have it in the sun, put it next to a window or somewhere where it comes alone in part. It has a very good tolerance for heat, but if you are in an area where the sun is very hot in the day’s central hours, you can provide some shade.

With regard to temperatures and irrigation, it is not advisable to expose it to minimum temperatures below ten positive degrees. And to irrigate them, because they like the sun so much, in summer we can water once a week (always and when it has a good drainage), in spring once every fortnight, in Autumn, if necessary (that it does not cold at nights, so, the minimum temperatures do not fall from the ten positive degrees), you can bring water once a month. And in winter, especially, stop giving water until the next season. His greatest enemy, we might say, is excess moisture. Between irrigation and irrigation, you must be sure that the substrate is completely dry.

Finally, I tell you a curiosity about the Latin name of this Echinopsis. We can attribute the translation of “tubiflora” to: “with a tube-shaped flower”.