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Description: Plants often form large clumps
up to 80 cm
wide. Stems globose to club shaped, bright green, 7 - 14 cm tall, 5 - 6
cm in diameter. With dense wool and bristles in the axil.
Spines: Central: 3 - 8, yellow with dark reddish brown, straight,
and up to 11 mm long. T he lowermost one
is 20 mm long, split and forms
two accessories with lateral forking.
Radials: 30 - 64, stiff, thin, needle-like,
glassy white to yellowish white, up to 8 mm.
Flower: Funnel-form, bright pink,
up to 15 mm in length and in diameter.
Cultivation: Water regularly in summer, but do
not over-water (rot
prone). Use
a pot with good drainage and a very porous potting media.
Keep dry in winter.
Feed with a high potassium
fertilizer in summer.
It is quite frost-resistant if kept dry, hardy as low as -5° C (some
reports give it hardy to -12°C). Outside full sun or
afternoon shade, inside it needs bright light, and some direct sun.
Propagation: Grafting, division of larger clumps.
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