PARODIA SCHLOSSERI

Parodia erubescens (previously known as Notocactus schlosseri) (Hunt): Low-growing ball cactus from Uruguay with 22 ribs and a dense covering of sharp, coppery spines. This variety produces shiny, yellow flowers up to 2.0″ wide in late spring.It is a usually solitary spherical to shortly cylindrical, upright cactus. It is related to Parodia mammulosa and with its very dense, reddish-spined young growth is an attractive plant, even without the shining lemon-yellow flowers with red stigma. This member of the Cactaceae family was given this name after the person who collected it in Uruguay, Hugo Schlosser. This plant was for many years known only by its collection number