![]() ![]() The ribs in the younger specimen have very geometric and conspicuous tubercles, typically with a hexagonal base.Īreoles: Up to 18 mm in diameter, orangish, fading in grey as they become older. Ribs: 14-22(-37), rounded, broad, obtuse, wavy, almost straight, thickened at areoles (tuberculate), becoming flattened. In cultivation the white waxy bloom is often not produced, revealing a brownish epidermis. The whitish-grey coloration is a waxy coating presumably to prevent desiccation in it's extremely dry environment. Stem: Globose to cylindrical, up to 1 m high, 20-30 cm across, pale olive-green, grey-green or ash-grey to silvery-blue when old, the apex is very spiny, covered with reddish, orangish or yellowish-brown wool. Habit: It is a large sized often elongated and columnar plant slowly branching from the base, forming large, open clumps with (usually) few individual stems. Such variations has led to establishment of several unnecessary names for this species. Nowadays all them are thought to belong to a unique polymorphic species. However apart for the spines it look very similar to other varieties of Copiapoa haseltoniana which are linked one to each others by populations of plants with intermediate characteristics. It is a densely spined form with very distinctive yellow-brown spines, later almost black found only on the high altitude range of the species. Description: Copiapoa eremophila is one of the controversial geographical forms of the very variable Copiapoa haseltoniana similar (if not the same) as Copiapoa gigantea.
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