Xerophyte

Description

It is a very slowing clumping cactus that can eventually form large knee-high clumps up to 1 m in diameter (but usually less). Some of the oldest plant found in habitat might be thousands of years old.

Spines

Gold to Aber-brownish, straight, rigid.

Stem

Globose-flattened, grey-green to ghostly blue, with poor white coat. Individual heads up to 10 cm in diameter and 30-60 cm tall, the apex is wooly.

Radial Spines

4-6 prominent 1-3 cm long.

Areoles

Roundish greyish to orangish 3.6 mm apart.