Short shoots are visible as clusters of leaves and spines along the stem.
Arid-tropical, responds well to generous watering and fertilizing during the warmer months. This information is gathered from a wide variety of electronic, print and other sources. We have included reference information on each page to denote the original source of such information. More importantly, many of the plants in our collections have reputed medicinal properties according to some sources. We will only reproduce information we believe to be correct, but we make no claims as to the validity of this information.