Discocactus araneispinus Mesemb Easy to grow but can

Easy to grow but can be sensitive to overwatering

It only grows a few inches tall but spreads horizontally forming a clump a foot or more across in time

Give water as the soil is about to dry out in the spring through early summer

You will receive the plants shown in the last image or one similar

The rosettes usually stay 8" diameter or less

Discocactus araneispinus Mesemb Easy to grow but canDiscocactus araneispinus An interesting small cactus that produces attractive white spines and a white fuzzy cephalium (head or cap) when mature. When young it grows like a regular green cactus, but once the cephalium starts growing (as this plant is just starting to do) it stops growing its green stem and only produces the head for the rest of its life. As time goes on this cephalium gets wider and fluffier and regularly produces white flowers out of