Echinocereus dasyacanthus

Echinocereus dasyacanthus is a species of Echinocereus. It's type locality is El Paso, Texas.

Background
Plants usually simple, cylindric, 1 to 3 dm. high, very spiny; ribs 15 to 21, low, 2 to 3 cm. high; areoles approximate, 3 to 5 mm. apart, short-elliptic; radial spines 16 to 24, more or less spreading, central spines 3 to 8, a little stouter than the radials, never in a single; flowers from near the apex, often very large, often 10 cm. long, yellowish, or drying reddish; outer parianth-segments linear-oblong, 4 to 5 cm. long, acute; inner perianth-segments oblong, 5 cm. long; fruit nearly globular, 2.5 to 3 5 cm. in diameter, purplish, edible. Distributed in Western Texas, southern New Mexico, and northern Chihuahua. It has been ported from Arizona, but doubtless wrongly.