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  Escobaria runyonii
(Syn: Escobaria emskoetteriana)
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Forming tiny clusters of brown spined stems. Flowers are flesh coloured.
 

Description: Small caespitose cactus thickly covered with small, weak, spines that form low clumps.
Stem: The individual stems are globose to short-cylindric, about 5 cm hight.
Tubercles: Conic, axil naked.
Roots: Fibrous.
Radial spines: 20-25 whitish-gray to pale orange-brownish
Central spines: 6-8, setaceous, white with brown or black tips.
Flowers: Brownish-yellow, pink or flesh coloured, 3cm long.
Fruit: Small elongate,  red.
Blooming season: Early April-May.
The Escobaria emskoetteriana complex (E. emskoetteriana, E. muehlbaueriana, E. runyonii) comprises many different forms.

Cultivation: It comes from an area of summer rainfall;  keep drier in winter (but for outdoors cultivation it is very resistant to wet conditions, too). Very cold resistant. It can easily be grown outdoors in areas with  minimum winter temperatures of - 5° (or less). Needs full sun to light shade.

Propagation: Seeds (no dormancy requirement, they germinate best at  25°C) or usually by offsets (readily available), or occasionally grafted.

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Family: Cactaceae (Cactus Family)

Escobaria runyonii Britton & Rose

Scientific Name: Escobaria emskoetteriana (Quehl) Borg
Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 20:139. 1910

Common Names include: Junior Tom Thumb cactus.
 

Distribution: USA (western Texas), Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas)

Conservation status: Listed in CITES appendix II.

Synonyms:

  • Coryphantha emskoetteriana
  • Mammillaria emskoetteriana
  • Escobaria runyonii Britton & Rose
  • Escobaria bella Britton & Rose
  • Coryphantha bella
  • Mammillaria bella (Britton & Rose) D. Weniger, nom. nud.
  • Coryphantha robertii A. Berger
  • Mammillaria robertii (A. Berger) D. Weniger, nom. nud.
  • Escobaria muehlbaueriana
  • Neobesseya muehlbaueriana
  • Coryphantha muehlbaueriana
  • Coryphantha piercei
  • Mammillaria escobaria
 


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