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Echinofossulocactus sulphureus 8/4/21
Note the British spelling. We can't change the spelling once our species are named. Whatever comes out of a Latin alphabet is accepted for a name. I kind of hate it because I think that transliterating Greek to Latinate is awful, like Latin C in place of Greek K. The letter C has been drafted to an amazing number of uses, including in Castilian Spanish where it may be our English "th" or "S," depending on the vowel sound that comes after. Nutty, these alphabets. Just because the Romans won the war doesn't mean we have to subjugate our Greek desires to the will of the Roman conqueror. But, I'm fairly alone here. In any case, this is a good picture of a mature plant, a little bigger than a golf ball, of the species. If you look hard, you can see the baby and juvenile spines of this plant at the soil level. They will be gone in a few years of further growth. (084/112)