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Aztekium hintonii Seeds

Rare Exotic Cactus

The genus Aztekium contains three species of small globular cactus. Discovered in 1929 by F. Ritter, in Rayones, Nuevo León, Mexico, this genus was thought to be monotypic until a second species was discovered by George S. Hinton, in Galeana, Nuevo León in 1991.

Aztekium hintonii is a rare slow-growing, solitary, globular to shortly columnar cactus (rarely clustering, forming clumps of a few heads). The stem is greyish-green, globular and squat, rarely short columnar, up to 8 inches (20 cm) tall, up to 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter, with apex slightly woolly. The 10 to 15 ribs are up to 0.5 inch (1.3 cm) deep. The areoles are small and very numerous along the edge of each ribs, woolly in youth, up to 0.2 inch (0.5 cm) apart. The spines are curved, greyish-white and up to 0.5 inch (1.3 cm) long. Flowers are diurnal, magenta, up to 1.2 inches (3 cm) in diameter, borne at the stem tip and bloom in summer, when the temperatures are at their maximum.