Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus f. mostruosus proliferus
Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus f. mostruosus proliferus
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus f. mostruosus proliferus
Author
hort.
Chinese genus
岩牡丹属
Chinese name
-
Accepted
DescriptionEdit description
Description
This is an heavy clumping (monstrous) cultivar, with very small and densely branched heads. The cluster of heads never get much larger but can slowly fill a 10 cm bowl.
Roots
The cuttings form large swollen tuberose.
Tubercles
The tubercles are thin deltoid dark olive green with no spines. They are more long than wide, closely packed and divergent, sharply angled apically.
Stem
Basally branching from 0,5 to 1,5 cm in diameter that turns a dark green in direct sunlight.
Areoles
Forms a central longitudinal areolar groove extending to the tips on the adaxial surfaces of the tubercles, woolly, 1-3 mm wide, 4-7 mm long.