Growing to large clusters, robust mostly magenta flowers. This might be Cardenas original Lobivia larae. Certainly belongs to Lobivia pentlandii with its rather short flower and big fleshy fruits.
A small high-altitude Andean cactus with a distinctive flattened form, typically solitary (occasionally forming small clumps), featuring a fresh green body and pale brown to creamy-yellow spines. Large red flowers.
It is distinguished by its slightly smaller, solitary (rarely clustering) body, with long, twisted black hooked spines. The flowers are large, with a white throat circle (occasionally yellow, salmon, orange, to carmine). Frost-resistant.
