Xerophyte

Description

Eriosyce napinaSN|2370]]SN|2370]] var. lembckei has tiny globose or finger-like stem, slowly growing atop a thick, underground taproot, with a constriction between the stem and the root.

Roots

It has a tuberous root system with (usually) a very large carrot-like root of at least 7 cm of length.

Tubercles

Smaller than the type.

Flowers

Funnelform; buds hairy with brown wool.

Blooming Season

It flowers already when young, synchronised flowering of the whole plants took place over one or two days, and remain open for about three or four days.

Late spring.

Spines

Alll radials, short copper-brown to black coloured of small size 2-3 mm long.

Stem

Slow growing, up to 3-5 cm across, 2-6 cm tall (often becoming cylindrical and up to 20 cm long in cultivation), with brown-olive-grey tones

Fruits

Large red clavate, wrapped in white wool.

Areoles

Grey woolly.