Last summer my Escobaria sneedii (SB 173; Doña Ana County, New Mexico) plants flowered for the first time.
Flowering Escobaria sneedii
The E. sneedii plants are heavily branching, eventually forming large clusters. The stems are obscured by a dense cover of bright snowy white spines, and the flowers are a pale rose-pink with slightly darker midstripes.
The plants are grown in a coldhouse and are exposed to temperatures well below freezing during winter. They are allegedly very rot-prone, so I grow them in an inorganic, mineral soil with extremely good drainage. The plants are kept bone-dry during winter but watered rather freely during their growing season.
Flowering Escobaria sneedii – top view
I bought the plants from Mesa Garden during a visit to the US a couple of years ago.
Escobaria sneedii is also known as Coryphantha sneedii.
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