‘Enigma’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Enigma'		SRL-Sch-XXXX-0357

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
unknown	USA

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
	ENIG		sport

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
pod parent unknown			pink

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
		mutated flowers have been known to vary in form, often lacking petals. Some flowers will display aberrantly shaped petals that appear bizarre. Color of petals have been known to change in clones, varying from cream, pink and fuchsia. Flowers can appear as just a cluster of white stamens with truncata type, deep yellow anthers.

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
		Kakt. and. Sukk. 39: 69-71. 1988; EPIG 68: 5-13. 2012	The original plant was kept by "Waldo’s Greenhouse" in Muncie (Indiana, USA), This plant had small brown-orange petals. Around 1980 Glenda Wood (Anderson, Indiana) obtained a cutting from there. At her place the plant developed creamy-light pink flowers. The next step in the journey was the "California Epi Center". In their colored catalog (1987/1988) the plant was first documented with buds and flowers as we know it now. It seems a natural mutation, a sport or monstrous form. While S. 'Happy' and 'Thor Wild Cactus' develop more or less the same flowers on each occasion, S. 'Enigma' is unpredictable in the flowers it delivers in color, form and completeness. Phylloclades are thick with large, often forward facing, claw-like dentation.

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