Hechtia 'Explosion' Senecio and edged with dark green

and edged with dark green

Whether this hybrid is correctly identified remains a question

and branches and blue flowers

forming a decorative banded pattern

Light green leaves and a colorful scape of pink with a cylindrical head of blue flowers make it a popular pot or landscape plant

Hechtia 'Explosion' Senecio and edged with dark greenThis is a plant with a somewhat mysterious origin. We obtained this plant some years ago as an offset from a grower in California who said that this was a bigeneric hybrid between a Hechtia and a Dyckia. We grew it for some years before it finally flowered and could see no trace of Dyckia in the plant and so we reported this back to the grower. He said that he had never bloomed it yet and that he guessed that the cross didnt take! Oh well, so this is