Melocactus azureus ferreophilus Size:4" Pot silvery-white foliage

silvery-white foliage

It is uniquely adapted to this type of habitat and is known as a cremnophyte (from the Greek

and can resist only occasional light frost

With easy propagation through stem cuttings

Melocactus azureus ferreophilus Size:4" Pot silvery-white foliageOrigin and Habitat: Melocactus ferreophilus is a narrowly endemic species restricted to a very small area less than 100 km2 in central Bahia, Brazil. Habitat: The species grows on raised, exposed limestone outcrops in caatinga forest. It is critically endangered, occuring at a single location, with four subpopulations, two of them are probably extinct, and there is continuing decline in the number of mature individuals and subpopulations, mainly from