| Place of origin:
Mexico, states of Hidalgo and Guanajuato.
Description: Plant with columnar stem and
up to 15 m. high and 40 cm. wide. It color is pale green and
it has 10 to 15 ribs in the young individuals. The ribs are
doubled in specimens bigger than 1 m. high.
This species usually does not ramify and when it does the
ramifications appear at basal level.
The areolas are very close together and have 1 to 5 yellow
colored spines and between 20 and 30 white hairs. As the plant
grows, the lower part of the stem loses these hairs, only
remaining the thorns, whereas the superior part stays densely
covered by white hairs.
Flowers appear on the side of the plant near the apex. The
internal segments are cream colored and extenal reddish. Flowering
is nocturnal.
The fruit is red and with yellow hairs. |
