Xerophyte

Habit

It is a mostly simple rarely clustering species.

Central Spines

5-8, 4-7 cm long,

Description

Eriosyce engleriSN|2603]]SN|2603]] is a beautiful small barrel cactus with stems cowered with dense stout golden-yellow or yellowish-brown spines. It produces showy flowers in summer.

Roots

fibrous.

Flowers

Closely packed apically from young areoles, funnel-shaped 5-6 cm long, 4-4-5 cn in diameter, tepals bright lemon yellow with a reddish centralstrip. Style greenish white not red.

Spines

Numerous, stout, upwardly curved, not readily distinguishable as centrals and radial white or yellowish-brown in the lower part of the shoots and brown to black at the top.

Ribs

16-20 tubercled with chinlike protrusions.

Stem

At first hemispherical 14-18 cm diameter, later elongating to 30 cm high.

Radial Spines

12-20 shorter than the centrals.

Fruits

Red.