Cactus Biznaga

Description:

It is a slowly growing massive barrel cactus usually solitary that grows huge in habitat ( up to 2,5 m tall , 1,5 m wide). It could live more than a hundred years. The stem is grey-blue ± tuberculate and nice when small, whilst large plants are heavily ribbed with numerous areoles forming a continuous line. Spines are black. Flowers: from end of spring to summer only on larger mature specimens receiving enough full sun. They are diurnal, vivid yellow. Mature specimens often have a somewhat sway-backed, saddle-shaped apex, densely covered in white wool, where their flowers emerge.

Habitat:

Jardín particular en El Carmolí (Cartagena).

Notes:

El pueblo Huichol lo llama “Aikutsi”, lo usaban para sus ceremonias ya que contiene alcaloides