Xerophyte

Flowers

Sweet smelling large 6 to 7.5 cm whitish to pink-coloured (Or yellow) are produced in late summer to autumn. Very big, fruits are long (ca. 4 cm long, 1 cm diameter)

Forma Aurea

The schizochromic form (Coryphantha elephantidens f. aureaSN|3920]]SN|26102]] ) has yellow stems due to the absence (or reduced production) of chlorophyll pigments

Spines

The tubercles are capped with a 5-8 of stout reflexed radial spines, long (18-26 mm) never porrect, but adpressed to the body.

Stem

Cream-yellow to bright golden yellow, up 18 cm in diameter, very large tubercles 20-30 (60) mm wide, rounded on top, pentaedrical at the base, always broader than rounded, without glands, the tubercles axil is woolly.