Escobaria vivipara

Family: Cactaceae
Common Name: Spinystar
Symbol: ESVI2
Description: Solitary stems or clusters; stems ovoid to cylindric; tubercles long and narrow. Spines are dense, obscuring the stem; spines are 7-25 mm long, thin, very straight and sharp-pointed, and the radial spines radiate out like bicycle spokes and overlap the spines from neighboring areoles; spines are bright to ashy white with reddish or brownish tips and sometimes stripes.