Echinopsis 'Tangerine'

This offering from Johnson appeared first in his 1957 catalog, sans photographs, along with other hybrids in orange and salmon-peach colors. It is one of the hardier Johnson hybrids, able to withstand temperatured as low as 15 degrees F. My plant has grown nine inches tall and slightly over three inches in diameter in 14 years. It is rather stingy with offsets and bloom, but the two to three inch flowers are charming in form and color. Some years they bloom bright orange. Other times, a soft salmon orange, and colors might vary between flowers in bloom at the same time on a single plant. The above photo shows a clear view of the plant top in flower. Plant diameter is three inches across.

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Flowers measure up to 11.5cm in length. Split fan as shown = 11cm across. Generally open corrolla diameters are nearly equal to the split-fan measurements. E.'Tangerine' has eleven light green lobes on a white, blending-to-green style = 5.5cm long. Yellow anthers on salmon-colored stamens make up crown row at top. Inside tube, the orangish stamens soon turn to fuscia then purple, then green as they grow from deeper in the tube above the ovary.

Four to five flowers is about as large a 'flush' as E. 'Tangerine' has ever displayed in my collection.

Color variation occurs in many Echinopsis hybrids, including E.'Tangerine'. Often lighter colored flowers are offering a second day of bloom, when conditions are not too hot.

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