Description: This is a rare ONZUKA form with a strange columnar shape.

Flowers: Arise from the areole at the tip of the stem on mature plant.

Cultivation: It is relatively easy to grow. Use mineral well permeable substratum with little organic matter (peat, humus). Water sparingly from March till October and keep perfectly dry in winter at temperatures from 5 to 15 degrees centigrade. (but it is Hardy to -7°C for short periods) In the rest period no high atmospheric humidity!! Sun Exposure: Light shade to full sun.

This cultivar tends to be slower growing.

Propagation:  seed or graft.

Scientific name:  Astrophytum myriostigma Lemaire
cv. ONZUKA forma columnare

Conservation status: Listed in CITES appendix 2.

Origin:  Japan, Garden origin (Nursery produced cultivar)

Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of Astrophytum myriostigma:

• A. myriostigma
• A. myriostigma bicostatum
• A. myriostigma columnare
• A. myriostigma cv. FUKURYU
• A. myriostigma cv. HAKUUN
• A. myriostigma cv. HAKUUN nudum
• A. myriostigma cv. HAKUUN nudum forma cristata
• A. myriostigma cv. HAKUUN tricostatum
• A. myriostigma cv. HUBOKI
• A. myriostigma cv. HUBUKI
• A. myriostigma cv. KIKKO
• A. myriostigma cv. KIKKO nudum
• A. myriostigma cv. LAIMAKE
• A. myriostigma cv. LOTUSLAND
• A. myriostigma maculatus forma cristata
• A. myriostigma multicostatum
• A. myriostigma nudum
• A. myriostigma nudum forma cristata
• A. myriostigma nudum forma variegata
• A. myriostigma nudum cv MAIDEN BLUSH
• A. myriostigma cv. ONZUKA
• A. myriostigma cv. ONZUKA ball type
• A. myriostigma cv. ONZUKA columnare
• A. myriostigma cv. ONZUKA cristata
• A. myriostigma cv. ONZUKA + FUKURYU tricostatum
• A. myriostigma cv. ONZUKA + HAKUUN
• A. myriostigma cv. ONZUKA + KIKKO
• A. myriostigma cv. ONZUKA quadricostatum
• A. myriostigma cv. ONZUKA tricostatum
• A. myriostigma cv. ONZUKA white form
• A. myriostigma quadricostatum
• A. myriostigma quadricostatum nudum
• A. myriostigma v. strongylogonum
• A. myriostigma v. strongylogonum cv. COSTA
• A. myriostigma tricostatum
• A. myriostigma tricostatum FUKURYU type1
• A. myriostigma tricostatum nudum
• A. myriostigma variegatum