Echinocactus polyancistrus
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Read about Echinocactus polyancistrus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Echinocactus polyancistrus, Engelm. & Bigel. Ovate or at length subcylindric, becoming 4-10 in. high and 3-4 in. diam.: ribs 13-17, obtuse, tuberculately interrupted: radial spines 20 or more, compressed and white, the uppermost wanting, the 4 upper ones broader and longer (1-2 in.) and dusky-tipped, the laterals shorter (⅘-1 in.), the lowest very short (½ in.) and subsetaceous; central spines of several forms, the uppermost one (rarely a second similar but smaller one above or beside it) compressed-quadrangular, elongated (3-5 in.), white with dusky tip, curved upward, the other .5-10 teretish or subangled, bright purple-brown; upper ones long (2-4 in.) and mostly straight, the others gradually shortening (to about 1 in.) downward and sharply hooked: fls. red or yellow, 2-2⅖ in. long and wide. Nev. and S. E. Calif. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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