The spines are used to make fishhooks in Mexico.
The flowers on the subspecies are white-creamy to pinkish.
The subspecies ...Read More'bocasana' has 30-50 radial bristle-hair-spines per areole and Red fruit.
The subspecies 'eschauzieri' has 20-30 radial bristle-hair-spines per areole and Pink fruit.
The forma 'multilanata' has an extreme abundance of wool-hairs and yellow flowers.
The Horticultural cultivar 'Fred' looks like green golf balls.
There is also a forma known as 'hirsuta'
Wavre/ greenhous +/- 2500 species, IA | February 2004 | positive
A lot of different varieties and formas are on the market, have a look to the uploaded picts.
It is more than possible that the Ma...Read Moremm. bocasana and the Mamm. longicoma should be synoniem to each other. They are both from the same locality, "Sierra de Bocas" in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi. Different specialist mention the resemblance of those plants (Britton & Rose, Glass & Foster, Coulter and more resently David Hunt. albleroy@tiscali.be
The spines are used to make fishhooks in Mexico.
The flowers on the subspecies are white-creamy to pinkish.
The subspecies ...Read More
A lot of different varieties and formas are on the market, have a look to the uploaded picts.
It is more than possible that the Ma...Read More