Escobaria orcuttii Rose ex Orcutt

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Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Snowball Beehive cactus, Koenig Snowball Cactus, Big Hatchet Snowball Cactus, Orcutt pincushion cactus

 

Description: Escobaria orcuttiiSN|10358]]SN|10358]] is a small clustering cactus species, with spines obscuring the stem and giving the plant a dull-white or pale brownish appearance. The flowers are rose-coloured.
Habit: It stays usually solitary, but sometimes branches forming small dense clumps.
Stems: Individual stems cylindrical, to 15 cm high and 4-6(-9) cm in diameter.
Tubercles: 4-8(-12) mm long, on mature stems with upper surface bearing a groove.
Spines: Not well differentiated as centrals and radials.
Central spines 9-22, thicker, white with dark purplish or brownish tips, 9-11(-22) mm long, often brittle and breaking readily at the touch.
Radial spines: 30-50, white, slender, spreading and 8-25 mm long.
Flowers: Diurnal, rose-coloured, not opening widely to 1,2(-2) cm in diameter. Perianth segments pale yellowish to pinkish or nearly white, usually with midribs darker, stigmas about 6 long, white to pink.
Blooming season: Blooms in early summer. Flowers open during the afternoon and only stay open for two hours or so.
Fruits: Elongate, 1,5-2 cm long, green to somewhat reddish.
Seeds: About 1 mm long, kidney-shaped, pitted, brown, with hilum lateral.
Phenology: Flowering occurs in spring (April to May in habitat). Fruit are persistent into autumn.

Escobaria orcuttii

Escobaria orcuttii (llifle.com)

 

 

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