Xerophyte

Habit

It is a mutant form that clusters like a mad just at an early age, readily forming crowded mounds or cushions with dozen of small heads.Stem. Deep green often smaller than the type.

Central Spines

4, one as long as 7 cm , others 3-3.5 cmlong.Radial spines 12, spreading, needle-like, somewhat curved, 12-25 mm long.

Cephalium

Growing laterally near the stem's tip, with grey wool and golden yellow to brown bristles, but seldom the stems of Coleocephalocereus purpureusSN|6341]]SN|6341]] f. Caespitosus are big and powerful enough for starting to flower.

Blooming Season

Purplish red, nocturnal, tubular, very melocactus-like flowers, up to 30 mm long and 12 mm in diameter.

Spines

Golden yellow to red, later grey.

Fruits

Globose to oval, shiny red, 17—25 mm long, to 17 mm in diameter.

Areoles

Grey woolly.