Xerophyte

Description

Arrojadoa albiflora is a s low, basally branching succulent shrub, probably a naturally occuring hybrid hybrid between Arrojadoa dinae and Arrojadoa rhodanthaSN|4847]]SN|4847]] (or perhaps Arrojadoa rhodantha and Arrojadoa multiflora)

Cephalium

Apical produced following each season's vegetative growth, producing ring-like clusters of white wool and redish bristles; vegetative growth can resume following flowering.

Flowers

In clusters from the apical cephalia, open during the day, pink, violet or white, tubular 3-3,5 cm long; pericarpels and floral tubes naked;

Spines

Bristly numerose.

Stem

Branching from the base, slender, erect, semierect, or creeping and wooly-white, cylindical, sometimes segmented, green, approximatively 2-3 cm in diameter.

Fruits

Berrylike, globose to pear-shaped, smooth, naked, juicy, purple, pink, rose or red, with white pulp, to 1,5 cm in diameter.