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Matucana roseiflora is a small columnar cactus from Peru, belonging to a subgroup of Matucana with symmetrical, insect-pollinated flowers. Grow it like other Andean cacti: bright light, sharp drainage and a dry winter rest.
Matucana roseiflora is a species of Matucana found in Peru. These are the non zygomorphic flowered Matucana's Ritter erected a subgenus for called Incaica. The most common in cultivation at the moment being Matucana aureiflora. Unlike most of the zygomorphic flowered Matucana's which are hummingbird pollinated, these are insect pollinated, having a normal symmetrical rotate flower.
Borzicactus fieldianus · Borzicactus hutchisonii · Borzicactus icosagonus · Borzicactus longiserpens · Borzicactus plagiostoma · Borzicactus sepium · Borzicactus tenuiserpens · Borzicactus · Cleistocactus capadalensis · Cleistocactus colademononis · Cleistocactus crassicaulis · Cleistocactus samaipatanus
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Matucana roseiflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
