Xerophyte

Description

This is a genetically stable mutation with variable +/- monstrous, irregularly shaped, ribs with knobby-looking swellings along the stems. Stems are lightly pruinose and branches just from the base and occasionally at higher levels, the apexes easily. The areoles are white and woolly.

Note

This clone is similar - and often confused - with Aztekium hintoniiSN|4247]]SN|4247]] forma prolifera that produces an anomalous proliferation of shoots just from the base and occasionally at higher levels. The "prolifera" form is greener, less wooly and will never produce monstrous or dichotomichous or crested apexes.