Echinocereus brandegeei

Echinocereus brandegeei is a species of Echinocereus.

Background
Always growing in clumps; joints sometimes one meter long or more, 5 cm. in diameter, but usually much narrowed toward the base; ribs strongly tubercled; areoles circular; spines at first light yellow tinged with red, in age dark gray; radial spines about 12, spreading, acicular; central spines usually 4, very much stouter, more or less flattened ,erect or porrect, the lowest one decidedly so, sometimes 8 cm. long; flowers purplish, about 5 cm. long; areoles on ovary and tube closely set, filled with pale acicular spines and loot white wool; fruit globular, 3 cm. in diameter, spiny; seeds black, tuberculately roughened.