USA, Arizona, Pinal, Maricopa County: Grown in cultivation at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, N 33 deg 27' 33'', W 111 deg 56' 35'', 1200 ft., 366 m; accession number 1978-0200-01-1; originally received as a plant collected by Sherry Kaummen December 1977 from Arizona, Maricopa County, ca 1 mile SE of Blue Point Bridge over the Salt River on Bush Highway; cuttings from along the highway.
33.546815 -111.611631
452 metros
1441ft
Plant height 4 feet; stems gray-green; older spines gray with darker tips, others tan with golden tips; flowers collected in the evening, diameter 17-19 mm, length 17-20 mm, outer perianth yellow with a broad reddish-green mid-stripe, inner perianth yellow, some petals with a blush of red at tips and yellow-green at base; stigma lobe number ? all stuck together, cream; style cream; filaments yellow; fruit fleshy, reddish-orange, diamter 6-7 mm, length 14-19 mm; seeds tan, 4 mm.
Flowers and fruit.
Cactus Voucher Project. This is sheet I/II and has the flowers, fruit and stems. Sheet II/II is DES00073578 and has the pictures.; Cultivated.; Cultivated or Captive