Let's have a thread for these wonders

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Genus: Turbinicarpus (Buxbaum and Backeberg)

    Small, globose to shortly-cylindric, occasionally sprouting from the base. Tubercles low. Areoles often with curved or twisted, sometimes papery, flexible central spines, Flowers solitary or several together around the apex, funnel-shaped, white to pink or yellowish. Pericarpel with a few scales, rarely with a few wooly hairs and bristles in their axils, usually naked and glabrous. Fruit globose to ovoid, berry-like, later dry, occasionally with isolated scale remains, otherwise naked, splitting at the base or laterally, floral remains deciduous or persistent. Seeds ovoid, often with pronounced crest; seed coat black, verrucose.

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Some of these species have been called false peyote over the years, notably Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele and Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus.

A great resource for all things turb is The Turbinicarpus Information Exchange (alas not updated in many years!)

Now on with some pics

These have flowered for me so far this spring

Turbinicarpus klinkerianus


Turbinicarpus knuthianus


Turbinicarpus polaskii


Turbinicarpus schmiedickeanus subsp. flaviflorus


Turbinicarpus schwarzii


Turbinicarpus viereckii LAU1159


and a repost of one from last year

Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele subsp. minimus (krainzianus)

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still the ferrel said:


My vortex fan is fast to dry cuts. Its from days long ago from growing the ganja.

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