These are the first images of what will be in the future, the most spectacular flower of a Gymnocalycium Ragonesei, my GYM-RAG-SPIRAL-008, buying at Walmart on 04/26/2026, passing by to make the most precious jewel of my collection, later I will continue to provide photos so that we can see together its development and next flowering
Picked this one up pretty recently and it absolutely exploded with blooms this week. The contrast between the nearly black body and the bright pink flowers is unreal in person.
One of them is not like the others😁
Every time one of my gymnos blooms, it feels impossible that this comes from a spiny little cactus. The soft pink gradients on this one looked almost airbrushed in person.
Very nice plant I found growing out of a road cut in Cordoba, Argentina.
Sadly it was fairly high up and the road didn't have much of a shoulder so I could only get a few crappy pictures without risking falling into traffic lol
Pic 1: 1st of December.
Pic 2: 28th of April.
Pic 3: 6th of May.
Pic 4 and 5: today, 15th of May.
Pic 6: baldi seedlings (pointy), denu seedlings (round) and baldi x denu hybrid seedlings (in between)
At first there was not a lot of growth, because it was winter and I don't have any grow lights, but now it's getting sunnier and warmer it's having a growth spurt. Its two heads and and areoles are not only getting bigger, but also more distinct now. Because of that I think it might be a denudatum-baldi hybrid, because of the way it looks and behaves. It's too pointy to be a denu and too round to be a baldi.
Pic 1 & 2: G. ferocior (with a beautiful colour gradient)
Pic 3 & 4: G. vatteri (unguispinum)
Pic 5: G. polycephalum (Macht seinem Namen alle Ehre, because it has three heads! Not pups. Three heads. A trichot essentially. I love it.)
Pic 6 to 9: two individual Agua Dulce (Or hybrids thereof? They were sold as G. mihanovichii "Black")