Xerophyte

Habit

It is a columnar cactus, forming clumps or cushions with densely arranged shoots sometime creeping.

Central Spines

3 to 4 (to 6) Yellowish to dark reddish turning whitish soon.

Flowers

Funnelform on the sides of the stems, 6-10 cm long, huge colourful bright orange-red, with long hairy tube and 9 green stigma lobes.

Ribs

7 to 16 low.

Stem

10-40 cm tall and 2,5 to 4 cm in diameter, upright cylindrical, yellowish-green to dark green.

Radial Spines

10 or more, short, the young spines are yellowish but turns whitish rapidly.

Areoles

Small 2-3 mm apart.