Description

Blossfeldia Liliputana

The smallest of all cacti. Blossfeldia liliputana, is a solitary or clumping miniature cactus, with no rib and no spines.

Plants are found growing in sunny dry places between boulders on rocky slopes and often between cracks near the rivers in the sides of vertical stone cliffs with a little fine soil mainly on shale like rock formations often close to waterfalls where they have a almost continuous water flow running over them, but can withstand severe drying out and (in habitat) they can survive to nearly complete desiccation, recovering when fog, mist or rain returns to their natural environment. Their colour and shape is hardly distinguishable from a stone.

Locality: Tomina, 2000m Chuquisaca, Bolivia.