丸い金色のボールのようなサボテン「金盃」。メキシコの高地に生える。てっぺんにピンクの花を咲かせる。
(2019-06 東京都 神代植物公園)
Escobaria roseana (Boed.) Buxb.
Oesterr. Bot. Z.
Family: CACTACEAE
Accepted Scientific Name: Acharagma roseanum (Boed.) E.F.Anderson
Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 71(6): 323. 1999 [24 Nov 1999] Remarks: as 'A. roseana'
Escobaria roseana (Acharagma roseanum) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
(SB459 Higueras, Coah. Mexico) This uncommon cactus, has tiny, soft egg-shaped stems and will slowly form small clusters with dense golden spines. The flowers appear at the stem apexes and are cream to pink with bronze-rose midveins.
Origin and Habitat: Mexico: mountains of south-eastern Coahuila and adjacent Nuevo León (extent of occurrence less than 6 km²).
Altitude: It grows at elevations between 1100 and 2100 metres above sea level.
Habitat and Ecology: It grows on rocky limestone hills in xerophytic shrubland together with Mammillaria carretii, Mammillaria candida v. estanzuelensis, Astrophytum capricorne, Echinocereus conglomeratus, Echinocereus