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Cactus

Mature Ariocarpus trigonus in limestone Mature Ariocarpus trigonus in limestonePrint factsheet Facts - Kingdom Plantae Phylum Tracheophyta Class Magnoliopsida Order Caryophyllales Family Cactaceae Genus Ariocarpus (1) Size Diameter: up to 30 cm (2) More

A young Ariocarpus trigonus that hasn't developed yet the mature shape Minimum Avg. More

Ariocarpus trigonus, a typical plant in the October flowering period. Plant yellowish-green, rising slightly above ground level, globose, rounded on top, 5-25cm high, 4-30cm in diam.; tubercles divergent, erect, not crowded or basally compressed, acute at the apices, flattened and smooth adaxially, not fissured, incurved strongly, 3-8cm long, 1-2.5cm broad, usually twice as long as wide; spine-bearing portions of the areoles absent at the tips of the tubercles; flowers 3-5cm in diam., 2. More