Xerophyte

Central Spines

4 up to 25 mm long, rigid, stiff, needle-like, terete to slightly curved, thick below, white-grey to dusky-yellow to copper red, to dark brown to violet-grey to black (usually darker at apex), becoming grey with age. Some of them occasionally show a more or less curved tip.

Description

Parodia stuemeriSN|5863]]SN|5863]] firstly described as Echinocactus stuemeriSN|5865]]SN|5865]] by Erich Werdermann in 1931, is a distinct solitary species that at times may form small or huge clumps. However the plant occurs in several places, and is quite variable both in habitat and in our collections too. The spines range from dusky-yellow to nearly black, and flowers may be yellowish, orange or reddish, to 4 cm long .

Flowers

3-4 cm long and broad, campanulate to funnel-shaped, yellowishorange or reddish, pericarpels and floral tubes with white wool.

Blooming Season

This species is one of the last Parodias to flower each year - sometimes as late as late summer or early autumn.

Ribs

Approx. 20 or more, vertical or slightly coiling, flattened, tuberculate. Tubercles conical.

Stem

Globular to cylindrical up to 20 cm tall and 15 cm in diameter, dull green. Apex with whitish or brownish felt.

Radial Spines

Up to 25 thinner, needle-like, whitish but darker basally, interlacing, 10 to 1.15 mm (rarely to 20 mm) long.

Areoles

White, woolly in youth.