Xerophyte

Description

Small barrel cactus, usually solitary..

Flowers

5 cm long 6 cm in diameter, yellow-orange to brick–red with darker midline, they come from the wooly apex of the plants.

Blooming Season

Between at the end of July and beginning of September.

Spines

About 8, of which one central upright and very strong, basally enlarged, abaxilly flatted +/- hooked. The colour is purplish at the base and reddish yellow on the tips. Other 5 spines less strong of same colour and slightly curved at the point, are regularly arranged with the smallest of which at the base of the areole; there are also two very thin whitish lateral spine and an upper rudimentary aciculate spine thinner and shorter.

Ribs

15 to 21, sharp and with deep furrows about 3 cm highly

Stem

Spherical, green to pale bluish with a yellowish woolly depressed apex, 21 cm tall and 30 cm in diameter, as it ages it will become cylindrical an can reach 1m in height and 35 cm in diameter

Areoles

The areoles are upward elonged with a short white felt covers; they stand on protruding bump on the ribs.