Xerophyte

Central Spines

3 - 5, reddish brown, with dark tips, later grey, 7 - 8 mm long, uppermost longest.

Seeds

Small, brown, rough.

Description

Fairly slow growing and usually solitary or forming clumps.

Tubercles

Tubercules in spiralled rows, ovoidal to conical up to 1 cm tall, parastichy number 8-13, there is no or few wool in the axil.

Flowers

Diurnal, very small, inconspicuous, almost concealed among the tubercles, funnelform, white, greenish, yellowish or creamy white, 5 - 12 mm long.

Blooming Season

Late summer.

Stem

Globose to short cylindrical, light to dark green, shiny, 8 to 20 cm in diameter. With latex.

Radial Spines

Spreading, 6 - 16, yellowish-white to reddish brown, becoming grey with age, 5 - 8 mm long.

Fruits

Club shaped, scarlet-red, 10 - 20 mm long, edible.

Areoles

Rounded with abundant white wool especially the younger one..