Echinocereus pulchellus subs. amoenus

Endangered

CITES App. II

Echinocereus pulchellus subs. amoenus

1997 Seed list. nom. nud.

Family

Cactaceae

Genus

Echinocereus

Species

Echinocereus pulchellus subs. amoenus

Author

(A.Dietr.) W.Blum

Chinese genus

鹿角柱属

Chinese name

Primary

Echinocereus pulchellus var. amoenus

Accepted

Echinocereus pulchellus

DescriptionEdit description

Description

Solitary or slowly clumping

Roots

It has a strong taproot.

Note

Many of the plants usually known in cultivation as "Echinocereus amoenusSN|12902]]SN|8591]]" are instead a form of Echinocereus weinbergiiSN|8591]]SN|12902]].

Flowers

Abundant pink or purple/red (rarely white) flowers, up to 6 cm in diameter.

Ribs

9 to 13;

Stem

Flat globular up to 6 cm (but cultivated plants are frequently higher), 5-7cm in diameter, bluish green when young;

Areoles

5 to7 mm inch apart; 3 to 7 pale yellowish spines.

Endangered

CITES App. II