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The crested shape of this cactacea has the typical compact fan arrangement, which makes each specimen absolutely unique, never identical to another and for this reason much appreciated by collectors. In its normal form it is a cactus with a very particular and easily recognizable appearance, consisting of globular bodies when young, which then tend to grow in height up to one meter. The stems are tinted in a beautiful light green, completely hidden by a thick and long down, from which sturdy central spines of a reddish or dark color emerge. This wool, for which it has become such an unmistakable cactus, is nothing more than the result of the evolution of the central thorns, which have taken on this aspect to protect the plant from freezing temperatures and the strong sun of the mountain environments from which it comes; precisely because of this white roof and its provenance it has also been pleasantly nicknamed "the old man of the Andes"!