Xerophyte

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.