| Author: | Karl
Moritz Schumann, 1894 |
| Family: |
CACTACEAE |
| Origin: |
Southern
US, Northern Mexico |
| Soil: |
Mix |
| Water:
|
Minimum |
| Sun: |
Maximum |
| Thickness: |
20
Centimetres |
| Height: |
5
Centimetres |
| Flower:
|
Pinkly - Lilac |
| Propagate: |
Seeds |
| Names:
|
Chautle,
False-Peyote, Living Rock, Living Rock Cactus, Star Cactus,
Star Rock |
| Synonyms: |
Mammillaria fissurata , Georg Engelmann, 1956.
Anhalonium fissuratum, Georg Engelmann.
Roseocactus fissuratus A.Berger,
Roseocactus
intermedius Backeb.& Kilian.
Anhalonium engelmannii,
K. Schumann.
Ariocarpus fissuratus var. lloydii,
W.T.Marshall.
Ariocarpus fissuratus subsp. lloydii, U.Guzmán.
Ariocarpus fissuratus subsp. pailanus, Halda.
Ariocarpus lloydii, Rose.
Ariocarpus lloydii var. mayor, Fric.
Roseocactus fissuratus, A.Berger.
Roseocactus lloydii, A.Berger. |
This member of the Cactaceae
family was described with this name by Karl Moritz Schumann in 1894.
It is found in Texas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, San Luis Potosi
and Zacatecas, growing in grit or other well drained soil with
little water and lots of sun. It can grow to twenty centimetres in
diameter. The flowers are from pale pink to dark lilac.
The genera name from the ancient
Greek aria (an oak type) and carpos; 'fruit' because
of the resemblance of the fruit of the two genus in acorn form. The
species name means 'grooved' referring to the roots. |
