×Disuntia 'Pygmalion'
(Beahm) M.H.J.van der Meer (2020)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Maarten H.J. van der Meer |
🌵 Basionym | Epiphyllum (?) 'Pygmalion' |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Sherman E. Beahm |
🌵 Hybrid parents | Disocactus crenatus subsp. kimnachiiOpuntia |
Presumably named for the Greek mythological figure Pygmalion, portrayed in Ovid’s Metamorphoses a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). ×Disuntia ‘Pygmalion’. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/disuntia-pygmalion