Xerophyte

Description

Slow-growing flattened plants, clumping with tight, short white spines, form low mounds in time

Note

The so called “superfina” is a particular nice selected form with very small tubercles and spines.

Flowers

Rings of small (5 mm) nearly pure white (Or with light pink midstipe ) are produced in spring over a several weeks period

Stem

Almost discoidal to globose, apically depressed, dividing dichotomously, each stem are up to 6 cm in diameter.

Radial Spines

22 - 24 tiny, white and bristle-like that almost obscure the stem.