Xerophyte

Habit

It is a clustering species (rarely solitary) readily forming, especially in cultivation, clumps of many heads.

Description

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Roots

Mostly non-succulent, fibrous roots.

Flowers

Rarely more than 3,5 cm long and 4,5 in diameter. Bright pink to light purple, numerous in a ring at the base of the plant.

Blooming Season

April-May and remain open for up to five days.

Spines

Erect, thin, bristle-like and flexible, bicoloured silvery white and dark-reddish or mahogany with darker tips.

Ribs

12-26, spiralling, forming oblong rhomboid tubercles with well-defined grooves.

Stem

Soft globular, flattened and somehow apically depressed, greysh-green to dark green sometime very dark magenta-green.

Areoles

Elongated with short grey felt (almost naked) 3-6 long, 1,5-2 mm large.