| Description | The plant produces many offsets that surround the mother plant creating a powder puff looking plant. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Cactus |
| Hardiness Zone | 10 |
| Sunlight | full sun |
| Moisture | dry out between watering |
| Growing Media | well drained |
| Temperature | average house |
| Flowers | yellow with reddish brown lines |
| Fruit | seed pods are ornamental, resemble long Cayenne Pepper pods. |
| Leaves | This plant looks as if it is safe to touch, but beware. There are wicked hooked spines hidden underneath the powder puff looking wool. |
| Stems | clumping, spherical, blue-green |
| Propagation | seeds, division |
| Native Site | Central Mexico (San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas, Queretaro states) |
| Author's Notes | I remember growing this on a window sill and when we closed the drapes, the hooked spines would grab the drapes. The pot spilled and the plant dangled from the drapes. |
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