Pink Cinder — Gymnocalycium mihanovichii Clone Profile
Pink Cinder is a moody own-root Gymnocalycium mihanovichii with smoky olive ribs washed in ember pink and a sharply sculpted, star-like crown.
Pink Cinder lives up to its name with a distinctly smoldering palette: dark olive-green rib faces overlaid with bronzed tones and flushed pink along the shoulders and outer body. The plant presents a low, broad body with strongly cut, angular ribs that rise into pronounced chin-like points, giving the crown a taut, faceted look rather than a soft rounded one. In top view it reads almost like a burnished star, with each rib segment catching light differently across its satin skin.
The spination stays relatively open, allowing the body color to carry the show. Pale woolly areoles punctuate the ribs, each set with slender straw-to-brown spines that add a dry, bristling finish against the darker body. Pink Cinder is shown on its own roots and already pushing small offsets, including blush-toned pups that echo the parent’s cinder-and-rose character. Sourced from Uncle Chorn's Cabin in Thailand, this clone stands out for its brooding contrast and unusually sculptural rib architecture.
Clone Characteristics
- Body color: Smoky olive green with bronzed undertones and strong pink to dusky rose flushing across the rib shoulders and outer body.
- Variegation: Present as contrasting pink flush against green tissue.
- Variegation pattern: Irregular blushed overlay concentrated along the outer body and rib shoulders rather than clean sectoring.
- Ribs: Broad, sharply angular ribs with pronounced chin-like projections and a deeply sculpted, starry crown.
- Spines: Slender straw to medium brown spines emerging from pale woolly areoles; moderately spaced and not dense enough to obscure the body.
- Growth form: Solitary to low clustering, flattened-globose plant on its own roots.
- Offsets: Offsetting visible, with small pups emerging around the body.
- Distinctive traits: A smoldering olive-and-pink color mix paired with strongly faceted ribs that give the plant a crisp, almost carved appearance.
- Root status: own_root
Origin & Provenance
- Source nursery: Uncle Chorn's Cabin
- Source country: Thailand
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