Xerophyte

Description

The typical Echinopsis famatimensisSN|15830]]SN|15830]] (Lobivia famatimensisSN|3315]]SN|3315]]) is one of the most beautiful and distinctive small cactus species. The stems is usually singly, flattened-roundish to cylindrical with very short spidery-pectinate spines and egg-yellow flowers.

Variegated Form

Variegated Echinopsis famatimensisSN|15830]]SN|15830]] are cultivated for their beautiful stem that have sectors, patches or stripes with two colours, yellow (or orangish) and green. There are several forms of variegation. The extent and nature of the variegation can vary, and sometimes the plant will return to the green form. In others it is stable and does not change under normal conditions. Flowers are produced on the crown of mature specimens. Variegated Echinopsis famatimensisSN|15830]]SN|15830]] are very rare in cultivation and some of these variegated plants are very priced by collectors. They are sometime grafted on stronger species, called the stock, that can be any number of different columnar cactus.