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Thelocactus bicolor
Also called Straw Thelocactus, Texas Pride
Glory of Texas is a small, solitary or clumping desert cactus with blue-gray spiny stems and large purplish-pink daisy-like flowers in summer. It needs a warm, dry, sunny spot in very well-drained cactus mix.
Thelocactus bicolor, the glory of Texas, is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family, widely distributed in the northern Chihuahuan Desert of Texas and Mexico.
This cactus is grown as an ornamental. A warm, dry, sunny spot in sharply-drained specialist cactus compost must be provided. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
These plants are primarily found in the northern Chihuahuan desert in Texas and Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas) at elevations of 800-2200 meters. They typically grow on flat gravelly soils, limestone or sandstone slopes of hills or outcrops, and alluvial fans in desert or grassland environments.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thelocactus bicolor by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
