International Succulent Introductions
Plant Introductions of the Huntington Botanical Gardens
(published in the Cactus and Succulent Journal)
Vol. 74 (2), March - April, 2002
ISI 2002-51. Echinopsis ‘Shere Khan’
(1320-3). Flower simple-appearing, to 5 inches (12_ cm) across. Petals relatively few, neat in appearance, inners moderate in width, margins entire, flat when flower fully opened, rust-orange. Filaments mostly dark red, contrasting beautifully to orange of petals. Throat-circle yellow. Stigma light green. Throat green. Stem semicolumnar, to about 3_ inches (8 cm) in diameter, handsomely adorned with light-colored, essentially straight central spines to 1-1/8 inches (28 mm) in length. Out of the Jungle Book comes ‘Shere Khan’! The plant, that is, not the tiger. Toothless, he would have been envious of the stem’s beautiful long spines. Wow, if I had canine choppers like those! he would have thought. But it was only the color of the flower that reminded me of the fictional old feline, not anything about his dentition. HBG 87026. Rooted offsets $7.50.
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