Xerophyte

Description

Thelocactus bicolorSN|3420]]SN|3420]] are globular usually solitary cacti up to 10 cm in diameter. The var. tricolor is a densely spiny form with bright red and white spines.

Note

Thelocactus bicolorSN|3420]]SN|3420]] has lots of synonyms (like many other cacti) whit several controversial varieties and subspecies and comprises a multitude of different forms and ecotypes, but where each form is linked to others by populations of plants with intermediate characteristics

Flowers

55-110 mm wide, magenta with a red throat from early spring to autumn.

Spines

Centrals 3-4, 15-75 mm long, reddish to bright purple, straight, acicular. Radials 8-18, 10-30 mm long, white to reddish, straight, acicular.

Ribs

8, distinct. Tubercles rounded. Areoles with glands.

Stem

Ovoidal, 8-20 cm tall, 5-12 cm wide.