Discocactus

It has flexible interlacing spines up to 1-2 cm long, that are pectinate, flexible, creamy white or whitish-yellow with dark tips, recurved backwards, sitting on the plant like spiders.

Discocactus horstii is a small solitary cactus with a blackish discoid body typical of this flat and globular genus. The cephalium is covered by the flowers that come out of it. These cacti possess an exotic appearance shared by no other cactus.

7 year old plants of 3.5-4 cm in diameter. Very few available. Beautiful.

Newly described species with 6 to 8 stout marginal spines,15-22 mm long, 3 mm thick, elephant tusk-shaped, light beige; central spine missing. First published in Kaktusy (Brno) 57(4): 115 (2021)

Dark green body, stiff dark brown spines, white scented flowers from cephalium.