Flowers hot pink, fruit white. For the conoisseur. Thin 4 or 5 angled almost black gray stems with tiny weak spines on margins rise from caudex. Recently this form occurring around Tucson was separated as var. Stems truncate, very flat on tips, light brown.
Flowers pale yellow.
Plant body many ribbed, a rich rust red. Ribs covered with dense black spines. Flowers yellow, from a pseudocephalium.