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Winter flowering.
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An old specimen 6cm |
Description: Usually solitary or slowly
clumping 10-20mm high, 25-50mm wide grey-green to purple, flat to
globular depressed merging into a strong tuberous root .
Tubercles: Poorly developed nearly non-existent low and rounded.
Spines: Mature plants have (usually) one spine, rigid white with
grey tip 10mm long. Juvenile have 7 to 10 spreading radials.
Flowers: Dirty white to pale pinkish-tan with a brown
midstripe, 25mm long, 15mm wide. This species flowers in autumn/winter
rather than the spring.Turbinicarpus jauernigii
is part of the lophophoroides
aggregate of taxa, together with the following:
Cultivation: Robust species to
cultivate.
Requires full sun and careful watering to
keep plant compact and low. It has a tap root, and watering it properly
is often difficult and tends to crack open or rot if over-watered..
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Type locality: north of Las Palomas, San Luis
Potosí, Mexico.
Conservation status: Listed in
CITES appendix I
Note:
Plant found and collected in the spring of 1991, by cactus
collector Johann Jauernig. Grows on on rocky hills.
Synonym:
Turbinicarpus lophophoroides subsp. jauernigii
(G.Frank)
Battaia & Zanovello 1995,
Pediocactus lophophoroides var. jauernigii
(G.Frank) Halda
1998
Photo
and © copyright by
Andrea
B.
http://www.cactusfriends.com/Andrea/index.html
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The stem is very flat grey green. |
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