Xerophyte

Description

The Lophophoras are famous spineless cacti commonly known as "Peyote". The stem is often glaucous green, dull bluish or greyish green, very succulent, globular, top-shaped, or somewhat flattened with a woolly top. There are several different species, variety and forms (plus some intermediates and hybrid populations) In addition to the foregoing there exists an impressive array of cristates which forms nicely contorted and convoluted brain-like mounds. They are some of the more striking and priced crested cacti. They shows different crested shapes each of them has its own particular fascination.

Note

The long time known L. williamsii 'Cristata' is the more common and famous, but more recently cristates of segregate species have been illustrated and given Japanese names by Sato (1999).