Echinopsis longispina
Neue Kakteen 59, 84. 1931
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Echinopsis longispina
Author
(Britton & Rose) Werderm.
Chinese genus
仙人球属
Chinese name
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Accepted
DescriptionEdit description
Description
Very large and spiny cactus, solitary or branched. The body is almost concealed by the spines.
Note
The fruit has a whitish mucilaginous pulp and is edible with a fresh and agreeable taste
Flowers
Lateral or basal, 7-10 cm. long, funnel-shaped, and have a slender, curved tube covered with long white hairs. Perianth segments are short usually creamy-white but can be of almost any colour.
Spines
Radials are hard to tell from the central spines. Each areole bears approx 4 to 15 spines ranging from slender to thick, conical with a wider base, and irregular in length, the longest up to 8 cm or more. They are flexible and slightly curved upward to almost straight. Their colour varies from yellowish to brown when young but later grey.
Ribs
25 to 50 ribs deeply incised between the tubercles, which are approx. 2 cm long.
Stem
Bluish-green, spherical at first and later sort cylindrical, and may grow 25 cm tall and 10-40 cm in diameter.
Fruits
Globular, dark green with flowers remnants.