Xerophyte

Description

The standard Aztekium hintoniiSN|4247]]SN|4247]] is a usually solitary greyish-green globular to subglobose cactus, that rarely form a short column reaching 20 cm by 10 cm in size. Its ribs have characteristic transverse wrinkles and white and woolly areoles in youth. The "forma prolifera" is a genetically stable mutation that produces an anomalous proliferation of shoots just from the base and occasionally at higher levels. As it grows it will form crowded clumps formed by dozen of heads.

Note

This clone is similar - and often confused - with Aztekium hintoniiSN|4247]]SN|4247]] forma mostruosa a highly proliferative form that produces variable, monstrous and irregularly shaped ribs with knobby-looking swellings. The monstrous form also dichotomize or crest easily, its areoles have much more white wool and it has more light pruinose stems.