Xerophyte

Description

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Flowers

2 to 3.5 cm broad, scattered along the stem. Buds pinkish or even scarlet. Petals obovate, pale yellow to white, sometimes tinged with pink; stamens and style short. Stigma-lobes yellowish green

Spines

Sometimes wanting, usually several, to 1.5 cm long or less, white.

Stem

Branches (segments) often weak, cylindrical, terete, up to 25 cm long and 1.5 cm in diameter or less, deep blue-green often purplish, not tuberculate.

Fruits

Sterile, clavate, scarlet, spineless or nearly so. The fruits have the capacity to develop roots and shoots, behaving like seedlings in this way.

Areoles

Small, bearing wool, yellow glochids and spines