Ariocarpus hybrid retusus x fissuratus
Ariocarpus hybrid retusus x fissuratus
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Ariocarpus hybrid retusus x fissuratus
Author
hort.
Chinese genus
岩牡丹属
Chinese name
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DescriptionEdit description
Habit
It is a geophyte plant that produces a small star-shaped rosette of rough fleshy tubercles.
Roots
Each plant has a large turnip-like taproot, which lies below the soil surface and serves for water storage.
Tubercles
Greenish-brown, greyish-green, yellowish-green or olive-green, triangular in outline, acute at the apexes, deltate in cross section, flattened adaxially, or becoming slightly concave at maturity, irregularly papillose sometime forming one or two lateral furrows, usually as long as wide. (to 3-4 cm long), and with the edges acute.
Flowers
These plants have a woolly crown, from which emerge bright pink-violet flowers up to 5 cm in diameter, 2 times wider than long when fully expanded. Flowers last for 3 to 4 days.
Blooming Season
October, November.
Spines
It have no spines.
Stem
Subglobose, flattened on top, 3-6 cm high, rising barely above ground level, that grows extremely slowly, to 10-15 (or more) cm in diameter. The stem is usually solitary, rarely giving rise to side shoots from old areoles.
Fruits
Not seen.
Areoles
Apical or sub-apical, rounded, 1-5 mm in diameter on adaxial tubercle faces, rounded to more or less elliptic or linear, 2-5 mm diameter, woolly.