Echinocereus procumbens
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Echinocereus procumbens, Lem. (Cereus procumbens, Engelm.). Branching from the lower part of the st. and so forming clusters: branches procumbent or ascending, angled, at the base tapering into cylindrical, 1½-5 in. long by ½-¾ in. diam.: ribs mostly 5, rarely 4, straight or spiral, on the upper portion of the branch almost divided into tubercles: areoles ¼-½ in. apart, round, sparingly white curly-woolly, soon naked: radial spines 4-6, subulate, stiff, straight, sharp, in young growth brownish, then white, at the base often yellowish and the tip brownish, horizontally spreading, the upper the longest, reaching ¼ in. length; central solitary or absent on the lower areoles, somewhat stronger, ⅜-⅝ in. long, darker: fls. lateral, from just below the crown, 3-4 in long, carmine-red to violet, with white or yellowish throat: fr. ellipsoidal, green, ⅝ in. long. Mex. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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