Xerophyte

Habit

Plants usually solitary, sometimes forming clumps.

Central Spines

Typically 4, forming a cross, occasionally up to 10, needle-like, mostly straight, lower one sometimes hooked in very young plants, brownish, reddish-brown or nearly white 15-20 mm long.

Seeds

Dull black 0,7 x 0,5 mm broad tuberculate.

Description

Parodia proceraSN|5820]]SN|5820]] is a cute lime green cactus with beautiful brownish-red spines and yellow to orange flowers.

Flowers

Lemon yellow to orange yellow, 30-33 mm long; pericarpels and floral tubes with white hairs below, brown hairs and bristles above.

Blooming Season

Flowering occurs in summer through early fall and will bloom several times during warm weather.

Ribs

10-13(-19) more or less vertical, well defined, 5-8 mm hight and tuberculate.

Stem

Globose to short cylindrical, to 50 cm high (usually much shorter), 3-10 cm in diameter, with white woolly tips.

Radial Spines

7-20, like the centrals needle-like to hairlike, white with dark tips, (5-)7-10(-20) mm long.

Fruits

Almost spherical 5-8 mm long with long white wool.