Also known as Echinocereus rigidissimus. It distinguishes for the very short dusty white spines. A rare selected strain or cultivar with white flowers and pale creamy spines. Its blossoms are large and showy in comparison with the small size of the stem.
Habit: It is a small columnar cactus that when mature will form a clump about to 60 cm wide by 25 cm tall.
Stems: Erect, short cylindrical, only get about 7cm thick.
Radial spines: 30-35 pectinate per areole and 6-10 mm in length creamy-white to pale straw-yellow and does not turn grey.
Some of the information in this description has been found at desert-tropicals.com, llifle.com and cactus-art.biz
