Xerophyte

Tepals

Tepals not numberose, slender lanceolate to obovate, bicolored mainly deep magenta with thin, dark bronzy-orange or deep red basal stripe and midrib. Outer tepaloids and sepaloids similar in colour to inner tepals.

Description

This cultivar is the result of more than 20 years of devoted work by cacti enthusiast and hybridiser Bob Schick. ( ISI 97-30; HBG 80616, Schick 1255-30.)

Stigma

White.

With a bright white ring.

Filaments

Magenta.

Flowers

Up to 11 cm across.

Spines

Central spine up to 20-25 mm long.

Stem

Spherical to semicolumnar, up to 8 cm across, freely pupping.