Bought this rooted pereskiopsis for grafting. Was waiting for it to get established before using it for a graft. To my surprise it decided to flower and I was pleasantly surprised!
Agree it’s pretty! Might want to get some just for their flowers 🙂
mrxeric
Pereskiopsis rotundifolia indeed has yellow flowers, like all Pereskiopsis do.
But your plant is not Pereskiopsis at all, but a species of the genus that Pereskiopsis was named after: Pereskia grandifolia (Pereskiopsis = “looks like Pereskia”).
Pereskiopsis are closely related to Opuntia (glochids!), while Pereskia are their own branch apart in the cactus family tree (no glochids).
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Agree it’s pretty! Might want to get some just for their flowers 🙂
Pereskiopsis rotundifolia indeed has yellow flowers, like all Pereskiopsis do.
But your plant is not Pereskiopsis at all, but a species of the genus that Pereskiopsis was named after: Pereskia grandifolia (Pereskiopsis = “looks like Pereskia”).
Pereskiopsis are closely related to Opuntia (glochids!), while Pereskia are their own branch apart in the cactus family tree (no glochids).