Xerophyte

Description

This is a very nice crested Echinopsis, easily recognizable for its almost spineless body.

Flowers

These cacti produce gorgeous, night-blooming, white funnel-shaped, fragrant flowers with long tubes 15-22 cm long. Old plant may have many flowers at a time. This species blooms from late spring to all summer long, the flowers open on the morning of the first day and remain opened all the night long but last only one day in full beauty, at the second day they start to wither.

Spines

absent

Stem

Very fat (quite large for a crested plant ( 8 to 20 cm thick) it can form in age a huge convoluted mound.