Discocactus araneispinus Mesemb not the tiny flowers normally

not the tiny flowers normally associated with Mammillaria

at least in the west and south (it may be ok further north)

The rosettes usually stay 8" diameter or less

Tylecodon are winter growers

Discocactus araneispinus Mesemb not the tiny flowers normallyDiscocactus 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