Echinocereus longisetus
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Echinocereus longisetus, Lem. (Cereus longisetus, Engelm.). Ste. clustered, cylindrical, covered with long, dirty white spines, about 8 in. high by 2 in. diam., light green: ribs 11-14, straight, undulate: radial spines 18-20, straight, compressed, base thickened, subulate, flexuose, usually horizontally spreading, interlocking with adjacent clusters, the lower laterals the longest, reaching ⅜ in. long, the upper more bristle- like and the shortest, all white; centrals 5-7, longer, reaching 2½ in., stronger, the upper ones scarcely longer than the longest radials; all are bulbose at the base : the 3 lower ones the longest and deflexed, spreading and sometimes curved: fls. red. Mex. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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