Here in Queretaro, in the highlands of central Mexico, a fairly common barrel cactus about the size of a basketball with several sprouts at its base has begun blooming. They grow wild on thin soil atop metamorphic rhyolite and consolidated volcanic tuff. Using David Aquino's "Flora del Bajio" cactus treatment, the cactus keys out right to Stenocactus ochoterenanus. However, details in the description aren't quite right, and the flower color is a bit off. Especially the central spines are all wrong, and no images on the Internet seem to match. Attached are some photos so you can see what I mean. I look forward to some ideas.

Beautiful ...
Stenocactus in the wild?

It is still in my wish list, the price is still far above my budget

Very nice plant.

Devil's Tongue Barrel (Ferocactus latispinus)

Pictures from Cadereyta here

By golly Baja_Costero I believe you're right and I thank you for the help. Once more cacti start flowering here, you'll probably be hearing from me again. Saludos de Queretaro.

Yes, Ferocactus latispinus - my all-time favorite cactus.

What is this one? It's at our place in Phoenix.

Probably F. wislizeni.

plantmanager said:What is this one? It's at our place in Phoenix.

Looks like 'Grow your own fishhooks' cactus

hi all
@mcvansoest
@Baja_costero
@daisyl
i just picked this up today good price so i could not walk away. I love the spine color and density
so what so you think this is? the central spine does not look strong enough to be the devils tongue cactus

Steve

ketsui73 said:hi all
@mcvansoest
@Baja_costero
@daisyl
i just picked this up today good price so i could not walk away. I love the spine color and density
so what so you think this is? the central spine does not look strong enough to be the devils tongue cactus

Steve

I think you may have a fordii or cylindraceus . It reminds me a lot of the "one good one I used to have". Sadly all I got out of the plant is a reminder of why I bit off more than I could chew at the time...

I lean towards cylindraceus or acanthodes (the latter is the accepted name, while the former is the more widely used synonym).

In your climate these will need to be in the fastest draining soil possible and probably would like to be very very dry throughout most of the winter.

skopjecollection said:
Sadly all I got out of the plant is a reminder of why I bit off more than I could chew at the time...

• Barrel Cactus (Ferocactus)
• Uploaded by skopjecollection

thanks for the ID stefan, what happened ? rot?
Steve

mcvansoest said:I lean towards cylindraceus or acanthodes (the latter is the accepted name, while the former is the more widely used synonym).

In your climate these will need to be in the fastest draining soil possible and probably would like to be very very dry throughout most of the winter.

Thanks Thijs
I intend to do precisely nothing with it until next spring I hope ift does OK. I love the spinage. I guess i may struggle to provide enough light. Impulse buys
Steve

What has happened to Ferocacti I put in too much shade is that if they do grow they tend to really show low light effects in their spines - spines go super thin to non-existent. I have a F. latispinus that clearly is it because of the body and older spines but if I'd just show pictures of the youngest spines you'd not ID it as such. Problem is that F. latispinus is not quite able to deal with full sun here, many Feros are, so if you like me have most full sun planting spots or if there is shade most full shade then it is hard to get that plant to be where it is happy.

It might still grow just fine, but it will not look like it is normal impressively spined self.

ketsui73 said:

thanks for the ID stefan, what happened ? rot?
Steve

The core rotted. It wasnt a classic wet rot like most cacti suffered at the time, or the dry rot parodias experienced. It probably went down to the bad soil. I kept it alive for a long time , and it was doing for a couple of years. But somehow I messed up.
Its death might have contributed quite a bit to my "getting good". I know it was ...when I was still in faculty. Might have been late 2017 or early 18. Before I joined you guys.

I got the plant....spring 2012 I think