A decorative clone of this Mexican species that blushes bright red in stress conditions. We find that the plant is more likely to produce the desired red coloration in winter, or when the plant is under-potted and under-fed. The plant has stout and pronounced red marginal spines. With maturity the plant will produce abundant silvery ‘fuzzy’ trichomes along the leaf margins. The undersides are silvery.

Leaf tips may be trimmed.

Long known as Hechtia species Huamelula, this rare and beautiful species has been around for about thirty years but never common. It lives only very high on cliff faces in Huamelula Canyon of Oaxaca, Mexico where it is rare and difficult to access. The plants form rosettes up to 15 inches or more across with very broad, heavily scurffed, thickly succulent leaves that recurve at the tips. Very large marginal spines give the leaf margins a scalloped look. Now newly described as H. lanata. A slow grower that is very seldom available.

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