Echinocereus blankii
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Echinocereus Blankii, Palmer (Cereus Blankii, Poselg.). Branching freely from the base and thus forming clusters: sts. columnar, tapering above, about 6 in. long by 1 in. diam., dark green: ribs 5-6 (rarely 7), straight, almost divided into tubercles: areoles about ⅜ in. apart, round, white curly-woolly, later naked: radial spines mostly 8, horizontally spreading, the under pair the longest, reaching about ⅜ in. length, all stiff, straight, thin, white or the upper ones carmine-red when young, later reddish brown; central solitary, porrect, later deflexed. 1-1¼ in. long, white or brownish, black when young: fls. from near the crown, 2½-3 in. long, purple- red to violet. Mex. R.H. 1865:90. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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