Rebutia eos

Rebutia eos Rausch (1972)

🌵 Author(s)	Walter Rausch
🌵 Published in	Succulenta (Netherlands) 51(1): 2 (1972)

Etymology

Greek ēōs ‘dawn, morning, day’. Not explained by Rausch. Perhaps for the variable flower color: according to Rausch on some days “very light white-pink”, on others “almost white”.

With three letters, eos is the shortest epithet in the cactus family (the longest is that of Discocactus subterraneoproliferans).