Vatricania guentheri is a shrubby columnar cactus featuring attractive golden-spined stems with varying densities of fox-red lateral cephalia. Any devoted cactophile would be thrilled to see Espostoa guentheri in its natural habitat.
Trixanthocereus blossfeldiorum is a columnar cactus up to 2.5 m tall, it is now classified in the Espostoa and flowers 3 or 4 times in the summer, but you have to get up early because the flowers only last one night, but a wonderfull display!
E. nana (= E. melanostele subsp. nana) is a columnar cactus densely covered with white hair distinguished from the standard E. melanostele for its smaller stems and the wool on the cephallum is white to pale yellow (mostly yellow-brown in E. melanostele).
Tall columnar cactuscovered with dense white hairs to 10 mm long clothing the whole stem. The spines are very short, numerous at first yellow conceiled, among the wool.