Xerophyte

Description

Solitary or slowly clumping

Roots

It has a strong taproot.

Note

Many of the plants usually known in cultivation as "Echinocereus amoenusSN|12902]]SN|8591]]" are instead a form of Echinocereus weinbergiiSN|8591]]SN|12902]].

Flowers

Abundant pink or purple/red (rarely white) flowers, up to 6 cm in diameter.

Ribs

9 to 13;

Stem

Flat globular up to 6 cm (but cultivated plants are frequently higher), 5-7cm in diameter, bluish green when young;

Areoles

5 to7 mm inch apart; 3 to 7 pale yellowish spines.