Comb Hedgehog The plant from the collection is planted in a 3" pot.
Discovered in the Sierra Oscura area of Chihuahua, Mexico. Now includes southwestern Arizona to Maverick County, Texas, at elevations upto 4,500 ft. Plants are usually solitary, globose to cylindrical, 2 1/2" to 12" in height and 1 1/2" to 4 1/2" in width. Body obsured by spines without a central spine and flattened against the stems. Spines are comblike in their arrangement and often interlace. The spine colors range in white, pink, red, yellowish and brownish. Flowers are borne at the sides, funnelformed, and brilliant red to magenta with white throats. In size they are about 2 1/2" long and about 2 1/2" to 3 1/2" diameter.
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