Escobaria emskoetteriana (Quehl) Borg

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Origin and Habitat: Escobaria emskoetteriana is distributed in Mexico, in the states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas, and it also occurs in Texas (plain of the Rio Grande), United States. The species is common throughout its range.
Altitude range: It grows at elevations of 332 to 420 metres above sea level.
Habitat and Ecology: The species occurs in thornscrub. It has been reported from limestone of hillsides in desert or grassland. E. emskoetteriana is wide-ranging, abundant, and there are no major threats.

Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Big nipple cactus, Junior Tom Thumb Cactus, Robert's Foxtail Cactus
SPANISH (Español): Biznaga-Escobar de Emskoetter

Description: Escobaria emskoetteriana a globose to short-cylindrical cactus, forming clusters 5-10 cm high. It is very variable.
Stems: Globose to short cylindrical, 5-12 cm tall, 2-2.5(-4) cm in diameter and often branching.
Tubercles: 6-10 mm long, conical, often not persistent and their axils naked.
Radial spines: (15-)20 to 25(-30), white, straight, spreading irregularly, to 10 mm.
Central spines: (5-)6 to 8, often appearing as radials, setaceous, white to yellow with dark tips, straight, to 12 mm.
Flowers: Dirty white, greenish yellow, lavender, pale purple or brownish yellow, l, 2-2.5(-3) cm long and in diameter, the perianth-segments with darker or brownish mid-stripes; stigma-lobes greenish, sometimes tipped with brown.
Blooming season: Summer.
Fruits: Spherical to ellipsoidal, red, 6-9 mm in diameter, red or purplish. rarely remaining green.
Seeds: Brown.

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