Red Chili — Gymnocalycium mihanovichii Clone Profile
Red Chili is a compact own-root mihanovichii with glowing salmon-red ribs, soft apricot centers, and dark green striping that sharpens every angular facet.
Red Chili lives up to its name with a warm, spice-toned body that reads as salmon-red to pink, washed through the center with apricot and set off by deep green along the rib valleys and lower flanks. The contrast gives each rib a cut, sculpted look, as if the plant has been carved into pointed segments and lightly glazed from within. In top view, the body presents a neat, starry geometry that makes the color zoning especially striking.
This named clone from Noey in Thailand shows a compact, depressed-globose form on its own roots, with strongly defined ribs broken into angular, triangular faces. Spination is light and restrained, leaving the body pattern fully visible; small pale areoles and short, fine spines add texture without obscuring the color play. For collectors drawn to Gymnocalycium mihanovichii clones with vivid presentation and crisp rib architecture, Red Chili stands out through heat-toned variegation and unusually graphic rib definition.
Clone Characteristics
- Body color: Salmon-red to pink with soft apricot toward the crown and dark green in the rib valleys and lower flanks.
- Variegation: Yes
- Variegation pattern: Warm pink-apricot body variegation with dark green concentrated in the rib valleys, lower sides, and as irregular streaking near the areoles.
- Ribs: Strongly defined ribs with sharp, angular, triangular facets; compact star-like arrangement in top view.
- Spines: Light, sparse spination with short, fine, pale spines emerging from small cream-colored areoles.
- Growth form: Compact, depressed-globose solitary body on own roots.
- Distinctive traits: Heat-toned salmon and apricot coloration, dark green rib-valley contrast, and sharply sculpted triangular ribs that give the plant a crisp starburst appearance.
- Root status: own_root
Origin & Provenance
- Source nursery: Noey
- Source country: Thailand
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