They seem to be the correct variety. I bought the same Batch (I recognize the photo). They arrived early, in pretty good shape, with a few extra thrown in to boot. Very pretty with red spines and little tufts of white fuzz. It may be a different sub species, I don't really think so, but either way it's cool in it's own right. Besides if later you come across the "right" one, they seem similar enough to (super long shot) cross pollinate if flowered together and add to the tragically shallow gene pool of pereski's in cultivation. (cool to think about but not likely to pan out) Two things to consider, indoor grown and wild look vastly different just because of growing conditions. Second within species there are decent amounts of natural variation. This could contribute to it not looking quite like expected. As for me I am very happy with my newly purchased batch, confident of their identity and if anything happy that they seem a bit prettier than expected with their slight "irregularities".

I have any assortment of seedlings which I would like to graft soon. I also have some Pereskiopsis which I was going to use for grafting them. Then I read on the following web site that I would have to remove them in 1 to 2 years and graft them again onto a more permanent stock: http://pollenchaser.awardspace.com/grafting_stock.html I was wondering if I could just start a bunch of Harrisia jusbertii from seed and graft those Harrisia seedlings onto the Pereskiopsis. Once the Harrisia are 1 to 2 inches high I could then graft my other seedlings onto the grafted Harrisia. That way I would only have to remove the Harrisia to root and already have my seedlings growing on a robust type of permanent stock. I am just nervous about grafting and then removing grafted plants such as Epithelantha, Mammilaria and Gymnocalycium from the Pereskiopsis in 1 or 2 years since they may not root very easily. This double grafting seems like a safer approach since I understand that Harrisia roots easily. Has anyone already tried this? I would really like to have my plants grow as fast as possible.

Although well overpriced, you could buy a couple of them on ebay (I saw several listed), let them root (they root very quickly), and then cut them in half and root them again. They propagate very quickly in this manner.

Hi Bill this seedling came from one of my variegated plants this one has a red color because of the sun light but when it germinated it was almost pure yellow with some green streaks in it here is another pic when it had more yellow and you can see the green in it.