Species · genus Echinopsis · Cactaceae

Pink Easter-lily Cactus

Echinopsis oxygona (Link) Zucc. ex Pfeiff. & Otto

Also known as: Red Easter-lily Cactus

Growth habit

succulent subshrub

Native range

Argentina Northeast, Brazil South, Paraguay, Uruguay

Reference · E. oxygona

Cultivars of E. oxygona

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under E. oxygona yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

Echinopsis oxygona is a globular succulent cactus from the open grasslands of southern South America, built to store water and endure dry spells. Give it gritty, fast-draining mix and the brightest direct light you can offer, then water deeply only when the soil has gone completely dry to the bottom of the pot. It rots if left sitting wet, so err toward drought, and water still less through the cooler, darker months.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 10-21d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Direct sun

Water

≈ every 21 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

8–30 °C

Soil mix

Gritty, fast-draining cactus and succulent mix

Propagation

Readily from offsets around the base, or from seed

Fertilizing

Weak cactus feed once or twice in the summer growing season

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Large fragrant pink trumpets in summer, favored by a cool dry winter rest

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 10-21d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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