Bola de indio (Tephrocactus alexanderi)
Description
It is an ovoid succulent plant armed with thorns , green color that forms bushes up to 50 cm. high and diameter, loosely branched, numerous, globose, up to 5 cm. in diameter, tuberculated, fragile, with an epidermis of green / olive to ashen color. Spines from 4 to 14, of which up to 6 are smaller and the rest up to 4 cm. of grayish or blueish length, more rarely white, absent in some lower areoles, pink to yellowish gloquidia . Large flowers up to 7 cm. in diameter white or pink
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Caryophyllales
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Family: Cactaceae
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Genus: Tephrocactus
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