Echinopsis ‘June Noon’

This cultivar is not found in the wild. It is a cross between ‘Dielsche Hybride’ and ‘Newlans Orange’ and was originally released in 1993. Mark Dimmitt, former Curator of Botany at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson Arizona, created the cultivar.

Plants: This hybrid produces large, showy, cream-and-yellow colored flowers 2–3″ (5–7.6 cm) across. Stems are cylindrical, erect or sometimes lying down, with about 16 ribs. Needles occur in groups of about 8, ⅜–1″ (1–3 cm) long.

Flowers: Produces one or several dramatic flowers, 3–4″ (7.6–10 cm) around. Each flowers has white petals with bright yellow strips along each midrib, and green centers. The flowers typically last one to two days.

Fruits: ?

This flower of Trichopsis hybrid cv. ‘June Noon’, a cross between Trichocereus and Echinopsis, may be the same hybrid.

Online References:

Echinopsis ‘June Noon’ description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.

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