Echinocactus hybrid E. parryi x E. platyacanthus
Echinocactus hybrid E. parryi x E. platyacanthus
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Echinocactus hybrid E. parryi x E. platyacanthus
Author
hort.
Chinese genus
金琥属
Chinese name
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DescriptionEdit description
Roots
Fibrous.
Flowers
Not seen.
Spines
Dense, stout, subulate and ringed, chalky white to greyish-pink that turn a darker (redder) colouring when sprinkled with water. The spines in young specimens almost obscure the plant bodies.
Ribs
On young plants as few as 8, broad, high with pronounced tubercles and more or less undulate, but in old plants very numerous and rather thin. The juvenile Echinocactus looks quite different from the mature specimens. In fact, as with other Echinocactus and Ferocactus seedlings, the rib structure is not yet completely apparent, and they have making them look superficially like Mammillarias.
Stem
Subglobose or shortly cylindrical, flattened on top greyish-green to blue-green. The stem is supposed of intermediate dimension between the two parents, and may be rise to side shoots from old areoles.
Fruits
Not seen.
Areoles
Roundish, with abundant greyish wool remote on young plants, confluent in old flowering plants.