Be sure to place them in partial shade for the first few weeks, allowing them to adjust to brighter light. Cacti can be propagated from seeds, cuttings, grafting or offsets. Bright yellow flowers with red throats appear after about five years. In winter, when dormant, the saucerlike body shrinks to a flat disk. Wiry, gray to brown spines twist around this small cacti.
Flowers often have a wine-red throat.
Spherical, covered with tiny white-wooly scales along ridges of brown, spineless ribs. Flowers are yellow. Spherical when young to columnar when mature, ribs with cross bands of wooly scales between brown or yellow spines. The flowers are yellow. The flowers are gold.