Xerophyte

Description

Echinopsis cv. Haku-jo MaruSN|14675]]SN|14675]] is a famous Japanese cultivar with a very peculiar rib shape.It is a relatively common plant in its normal form, but this beautiful crested variant is very-very rare and priced by cactus collectors. The most striking feature are the woolly areoles on the ribs that have a felty line between them so it seems like the areoles are connected with each other.It is thought that this interesting cultivar is a chimaeric plant composed of two genetically different strata of cells. This meristematic mutation originated probably from a normal Echinopsis.