USA, Arizona, Maricopa, 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 1978-0197-01-1; 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 meters
1441ft
Plant height 3.5 feet; stems collected 29 may 2012, light gray-green, some blushing red around the areoles; spines light gray, golden on tips; flowers collected in the evening, diameter 20-22 mm, length 22-25 mm, outer perianth light yellow with greenish-red midstripe, inner perianth light yellow with a slight green tint and some petals with a light red midstripe; stigma lobe number ?, light yellow; style cream; filaments light yellow; fruit fleshy, orange-red; diameter 7-9 mm, length 15-20 mm; no seeds in fruit.
Flowers.
Cactus Voucher Project. This is sheet I/II. Sheet II/II is DES00073633.; Cultivated.; Cultivated or Captive