Does well inside and down South also. Flowers with deep red throats appear after about five years. In winter, when dry and dormant, the saucer like body shrinks to a flat disk. So called because of it's wiry, gray to brown spines that twist around this small cacti. A very good pot cacti with a small dark green body, sometimes flecked with white.
Flowers often have a wine-red throat.
A fast growing branching columnar cacti from South America that is covered with eye-catching silvery spines when older. Starts out solitary when young, but branches out and creates it's own clumps as it matures. Can grow to 6 ft. tall. The short spines of this small clumping cacti often occur in red and white bands. Also, a ring of pink to magenta spring flowers with pale throats, followed by green berries, appear on the crown of each stem.