Echinocereus fendleri

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Read about Echinocereus fendleri in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Echinocereus Fendleri, Rumpl. (Cereus Fendleri, Engelm.). Irregularly clustered: st. cylindrical or rarely ovoid or even globose, sparingly branching, 3-7 in. high by 1¾-2½ in. diam.: ribs 9-12, straight or slightly spiral, undulate: radial spines 7-10, subulate, straight or curved, the lowest or the 2 lower laterals the longest, about 1 in., stronger, quadrangular, white; the 2 next higher brownish; the upper ones round, white and much shorter; all are bulbose at the base; central solitary (or in old plants 3-4), very strongly thickened at the base, round, black, sometimes with a lighter colored tip, curved upward, reaching a length of 1¾ in.: fls. lateral, from near the crown, 2-3½ in. long, dark carmine-red to purple and violet: fr. ellipsoidal, spiny, green to purple-red, about 1 in. long. Colo., Utah and south to N. Mex. B.M. 6533. CH


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