Xerophyte

Central Spines

0-2.

Description

Solitary plant with fairly heavy spines bent backward in a distinctive fashion.

Flowers

Bell-shaped or funnelform, up to 4,5 cm in diameter, white to very light pink with a pink or reddish throat.

Spines

Subulate, stout, thick and straight or slightly curving, all whitish, greyish or brownish, with a darker tip, up to 2,5 cm long.

Ribs

10-12, with rounded sharply separated tubercles in young specimens that progressively becomes almost flat in mature plant.

Stem

Up to 15 cm in diameter an 10 cm tall, dull green or bluish-green, apex depressed with confluent areoles forming a woolly spineless disk.

Radial Spines

5-7(-8).

Fruits

Spherical or slightly ovoidal green.