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Ferocactus latispinus “Devil's Tongue Barrel Cactus” - seeds

Ferocactus latispinus “Devil's Tongue Barrel Cactus” - seeds

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Ferocactus latispinus is a modest-sized ball-shaped or flat-topped barrel cactus, which normally remains a solitary plant, without dividing or producing offsets.
Stem: Flattened to spherical (in cultivation), diameter 25 to 45 cm, 35 cm tall, most often wider than tall.
Ribs: 13 to 23 ribs, sharp.
Areoles: Large, grey to blackish.
Central spines: 4 large of which  the lowest one  is conspicuously wider, thick and flat, apically bent downward and hooked up to 4cm long. and lie flat against the body. This prominent spine is usually red or grey-red.
Radial spines: 6-12 up to 2,5cm long, spreading out , smaller, translucent yellow to reddish  straight that have almost no width at all.
Flowers: Beautiful “glassy” rich-purple to straw-yellow, up to 6cm long and 3cm broad.
Blooming time: Late autumn  to early winter, usually in October, but it usually flowers only if the weather is warm and sunny ( need a fair amount of bright sunlight to form) This species blooms very early, many young plants will bloom when they reach 10 cm in diameter.

All seeds are fresh of this season and obtained from my personal collection. (Seeds obtain from the plant shown in pictures).

(NOTE: cactus seeds could be sown in any season under control environment, however if you wanna go with nature then best time to sow the seeds is early spring/summer ) (check my collection at https://www.instagram.com/planetcactus)
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