From Cordoba and La Rioja, Argentina, Gymnocalycium schickendantzii is magnificently spined globular to 4 inches across. It reportedly produces a white to reddish flower.
Update mid August 2007. Finally a flower. A real beauty too!
Flowering in August
Even closer
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