Xerophyte

Description

Thelocactus hexaedrophorusSN|10830]]SN|10830]] subs. lloydii cv. monstruosus forms large clusters of firm, rubbery-textured green, monstrous stems.

Tubercles

Thick but low, strangely bumped, small or wide, sometimes 2 cm wide; flowering groove rather short.

Flowers

Light pink to almost white with. Filaments whitish, anthers honey/yellow, style yellowish, stigma lobes yellowish.

Spines

It has 1 white-brown central spines with sharp tips up to 3 cm long, and about 6 white brown radial spines per areole. Ascending from and curved outward from middle and terete .

Stem

Irregularly cylindrical shaped, grey to bluish-green, covered by a glaucous/grey pruina. Sometimes it will have a normal "patch" and remain mostly monstrous. The monstrous areas are bumped and strangely corrugated.