Echinocereus stramineus

Echinocereus stramineus is a species of Echinocereus. It's type locality is the mountain slopes, El Paso, Texas.

Background
Plants grouped in masses forming immense mounds 1 to 2 meters in diameter and 3 to 10 dm. high; joints 12 to 25 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. in diameter; ribs about 13, almost hidden by the long spines; spines at first brownish to straw-colored, in age nearly white; radial spines 7 to 14, 2 to 3 cm. long, spreading: central spines 3*0* 4; 5 to 9 cm. long; flowers purple, 8 to 1 2 cm. long; perianth-segments oblong, 3 to 4 cm. long, rounded at apex; spines from the axils of scales on ovary and flower-tube, 2 to 5, short, white: fruit nearly globular, 3 to 4 cm. in diameter, red, spiny at first, becoming glabrous, edible; seeds 1.5 mm. in diameter, somewhat oblique. Distributed in Western Texas, southern New Mexico, and northern Chihuahua.